Paying for the priesthood
A bargain
I read this story by Joe Luca. He talks about his own resources, and he talks about organised religion. Some pretty deep concepts are uncovered, and I think one measure of a person’s soul is how deeply those concepts are examined.
Turn them over in your mind and contemplate how they work?
Or trust that your church or mosque or temple has all the answers and there’s no need to worry?
An organisation means people and property and rules and someone has to pay for the training and retirement of the priests.
With Christianity and Islam, the priests promise an expensive and lavish afterlife that they don’t personally have to provide or pay for. It’s a freebie reward for supporting the priesthood.
I personally don’t see this thing as a credible basis for understanding the universe. Understanding the church, sure.
I have no problems with the notion of a causative entity. Here we are in a well-ordered cosmos, with planets whizzing along, the sun coming up every morning, and all the rest of it. Whether it’s some bearded gent in the sky or the Big Bang what set the thing going, I dunno. Something did.
Likewise all the rules and stuff. How gravity works. Geometry. The speed of light. How chemistry and electricity make…
