RELIGION, Inc. $$$

      
     Religion is the greatest financial institution that man has invented on the face of the earth, and religions worldwide have more than an abundance of wealth. 
   Religions have banks to count their money and vaults to store their money for safe-keeping.  They do not want it to get away, and they certainly do not want to share it with people outside their arenas; nor do they want to share it with people within their own religious communities.
   Religions have sufficient funds to feed hungry people worldwide every day and never go broke, but their behaviors demonstrate that they would rather people die than for them to buy another meal for one hungry person.
     While the leaders of religions live rich and lavish lifestyles, people worldwide suffer for lack of financial need. 
     People worldwide suffer for lack of shelter, clothing, and medical attention for sickness and disease while the leaders of religions sit on the money, spending it on themselves, hoarding it in vaults for themselves, while begging their congregations to give them more.
    According to various sources online, the ten richest religions are these:
     1.  The Roman Catholic Church
     2.  Islam
     3.  Judaism
     4.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
     5.  The Church of England
     6.  The Episcopal Church
     7.  Televangelism
     8.  Protestantism
     9.  Freemasonry
   10.  Church of Scientology
   The exact wealth of these ten religions is not known, yet they represent trillions and trillions of dollars in cash, gold, silver, interest earned on stock investments, and real estate holdings.
   According to The Vatican Billions by Avro Manhattan, the Catholic Church by itself is "the biggest financial power on earth.  She is the greatest possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government, or state of the whole globe."

   Obviously, religions are the same as business enterprises, for one of their goals is to accumulate fortunes:  taking money from people while giving nothing in return.

   More than this, however, religions also use the name of Jesus as no more than a building block on which to make money---deceiving people to believe they can be Christians simply because they join a religious institution, to which they will freely give their money.

   How many of these institutions, moreover, do not teach their people about resurrection of Christ, nor are they teaching the return of Christ?  Instead of teaching the truth of the Bible, they teach their people to close their eyes and minds to the Bible:  as if the Bible is forbidden fruit.

      "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake."  (2nd Corinthians 4: 3-5)

   Knowing Christ, therefore, is based on our relationship with Christ and Christ alone and not  on a relationship with an institution built by the hands of men. 

  Neither can this salvation be purchased with silver and gold, for we owe nothing  to the leaders of religions because they did not and could not die for our sins, nor resurrect themselves from death.

      "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, being justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."  (Romans 5: 8-10)