[jhkjurter]

You tyrant!!!!

He's the 1%!!!

[pharmacologist30]

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DAMN RIGHT!!!!!


STOMP THE WORKERS!!!!!!

[texbrease]

That's really not the point.

Christ's lessons were never intended to be applicable to business. They were lessons of attitude and personal conduct.

Oh?

It seemed the point to me....

[MYMcvBgl]

BUSINESSES THAT OPERATE WITHIN CHRISTIAN PRECEPTS

DO VERY WELL.

[jyhugikuhih]

That's really not the point.

Christ's lessons were never intended to be applicable to business. They were lessons of attitude and personal conduct.

I disagree.

The lessons were meant for every aspect of life.

Personal, Family, Business etc etc etc.....

I don't recall Christ saying 'do as I say, except for when you are rollerblading'......

There's no exclusions to those morals, IMO.

[viawbambutt]

I'm going to say something, and I want everyone to remain calm...

Sit down...

Take a deep breath...

Christ got paid to do carpentry!!!!!!!

[beenBinybelia]

JESUS: EXPLOITER OF THE MASSES!!!!!!!

JIMMY CARTER IS THE TRUE CHRIST!!!!

[huedaanydrax]

Furthermore, we intend to establish a system where all are messiahs!

Common ownership of the means of Godhood!

We ARE the 99%!!!!!!

[WapSaibiar]

Oh?

It seemed the point to me....

Let's not confuse the issue here. Religion is one thing, and business another. To take a set of higher moral codes, and attempt to translate them so as to be applicable to such as profiteering and material gain, is about as disgusting a perversion as it gets.

Fuck, why not just go the whole hog, and swap the term 'church' for 'bank'. The Bank Of Jesus Christ.

[Hofonom]

Let's not confuse the issue here. Religion is one thing, and business another. To take a set of higher moral codes, and attempt to translate them so as to be applicable to such as profiteering and material gain, is about as disgusting a perversion as it gets.

Fuck, why not just go the whole hog, and swap the term 'church' for 'bank'. The Bank Of Jesus Christ.

Well.

The point the venerable Mr. Adams was making was that even if the dominant religion hadn't already outlawed theft millennia before, any great society must, in it's formation, include this inviolable right.

[pavelChe]

I disagree.

The lessons were meant for every aspect of life.

Personal, Family, Business etc etc etc.....

I don't recall Christ saying 'do as I say, except for when you are rollerblading'......

There's no exclusions to those morals, IMO.

Business and religion are a contradistinction.

The one pertaining to matters of the soul. The other to matters of property and money.

This is foul.

[BJEugene]

Be careful, Wrath. I'm transcendent tonight...

I'm liable to turn a stick to snake, or vice versa...

[TheDoctor]

I'm going to say something, and I want everyone to remain calm...

Sit down...

Take a deep breath...

Christ got paid to do carpentry!!!!!!!

He had a trade.

His later ministry was not founded upon it. Trades were something one was born into. Buddha was a prince before he became an ascetic monk. The manner of his origins, whilst having a bearing upon his motive, in no way played any part in his discoveries, or teachings.

[Jimambol]

BUSNINESS IS NOT EVIL.

IT IS NOT A CRIME TO CONDUCT BUSINESS.

IT IS NOT A CRIME TO TURN A PROFIT.

[Daleman1984]

IN FACT, IN THE ABSENCE OF PROFIT, SOMEONE

IS BEING EXPLOITED.... ENSLAVED.

[Reftsheette]

Well.

The point the venerable Mr. Adams was making was that even if the dominant religion hadn't already outlawed theft millennia before, any great society must, in it's formation, include this inviolable right.

Thou shalt not steal.

That's not some literal tenet regarding property. It points to avarice as being materialistic, and hence unspiritual. The mistake of objectifying one's value in terms of the material. Shit, do you believe the Commandments were written for the good of capitalism?

[tefraxKedWere]

BUSNINESS IS NOT EVIL.

IT IS NOT A CRIME TO CONDUCT BUSINESS.

IT IS NOT A CRIME TO TURN A PROFIT.

If one raises corn, alone in the wilderness, and he doesn't create profit in the form of seed corn, he is dead. I suppose he could travel to Heaven all the quicker for it, but I don't understand starvation to be the ultimate goal of the deity...

[feAilei1]

Be careful, Wrath. I'm transcendent tonight...

I'm liable to turn a stick to snake, or vice versa...

Damn you.

[SaamanthaSterlyng]

Thou shalt not steal.

That's not some literal tenet regarding property. It points to avarice as being materialistic, and hence unspiritual. The mistake of objectifying one's value in terms of the material. Shit, do you believe the Commandments were written for the good of capitalism?

Wrong.

It is literal.

[Pwy9egVW]

BUSNINESS IS NOT EVIL.

IT IS NOT A CRIME TO CONDUCT BUSINESS.

IT IS NOT A CRIME TO TURN A PROFIT.

I won't say otherwise.

But business is business. It's not religion.