In the old testament, he wanted everyone to slaughter lambs and waste the meat by burning it.
Now it seems he's more interested in cash donations to his various churches, and he seems to want some of his representatives here to have more wealth than others.
Does this mean God's become an economic rationalist?
2007-05-05 01:35:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Organized religion = organized crime.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7292917241920717553&hl=en
The Italian priest saying Mass in what looked like a gold plated church near the Spanish Steps in Rome was about to give his sermon when in stormed a street beggar screaming at the top of his lungs.
"Give me the money and give it to the starving people like me. All criminals at the altar, especially you Father with all those golden rings and chalices!" cried the street person in Italian, as several church ushers rushed to remove him from the premises.
While being pushed out of the Church like a piece of garbage, he made one last plea to those attending Holy Sunday Mass. "Don't give him the money, please don't give it him! I need to eat. So do many others. All they do here is steal your money while many die in the streets.!"
The incident occurred on a bright sunny summer morning in 1982 at a time when the Vatican Bank was entangled in Italy's biggest financial scandal in its history, involving high ranking Vatican figures, the P2 Masonic Lodge, the Mafia and corrupt politicians and financiers.
And it was a time - especially in Rome and behind the Vatican walls - when all the bigwigs were covering their dirty tracks, covering trails that most likely led to the untimely death of Pope Paul I, Bank of Ambrosian chairman, Roberto Calvi, financier Michael Sindona and the looting of billions of dollars from Vatican bank coffers.
The murders and the whereabouts of the stolen money still remain a mystery today, but the incident with the street beggar in the small Rome Church said it all.
2007-05-05 01:51:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This sounds more like what people have done with God's teachings, not what God has done. If we can call the ocean a metaphor for religion, this is like calling the ocean bad because it is polluted when in fact the ocean is beneficent and helpful. We have to separate the polluters from that which is polluted.
2007-05-05 01:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by jaicee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No my friend
Some Christian answer my question because I am planning on giving 10 points to someone that answers my question instead of putting it up for voting. So far I have only agnostics answering and they haven't addressed my question
Thank you
And to answer your question,
God doesn't need anyone to sponser His work,
He needs followers that will dedicate and surrender everything back onto God because there is nothing that we have that has not come from God.
If you give your tithe of 10% the other 90% is still God's, it's not like you can do whatever you want with it
As it is written in the Bible, the earth and all that is in it, the people and those that inhabit the earth are His, 100% belongs to God. Stealing from God doesn't go unpunished, NEVER
2007-05-05 01:37:14 · answer #3 · answered by Sweet n Sour 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Well the con-men that pretend to do "god's" bidding are certainly capitalists. That's what fleecing gullible sheep is all about.
2007-05-05 02:12:37 · answer #4 · answered by Yoda Green 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No- God has all ready become everything God is going to be.
Unless some greedy opportunist wants to ammend the Bible by making more sh*t up with their version of the changes God is undergoing.
2007-05-05 01:38:35 · answer #5 · answered by gawd0 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Declared missing apes who came from the Atheists people? and have been asking questions? I would rather cite to you a verse from the bible.
Rom 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Rom 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
jtm
2007-05-05 01:45:26 · answer #6 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Even during Jesus' life, he had luxuries. He let Mary use oils on his feet instead of using the money to feed the hungry.
2007-05-05 01:43:47 · answer #7 · answered by dxle 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. If you think that people who have become atheists, evolutionists, and Satan worshippers are doing God's will as well. Well, it seems that God wants this, because He's letting it happen, right?
2007-05-05 01:41:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
1/10 is supposed to go to churches to help charities out not to line the ministers pockets or even for a fancy church because the people are the church NOT the building
2007-05-05 01:40:25 · answer #9 · answered by ausblue 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
He's the greatest ***hole tyrant in entire fiction as of today.
2007-05-05 01:42:19 · answer #10 · answered by Honest christian 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋