Sell an invisible product. When it doesn’t work, blame the customer.

Generally, the point at which religion doesn’t work as advertised it is too late to invoke any warranties or refunds.

Then there's the issue of not following the instructions that came with the product, and how that voids the warranty.

The proof that you didn't follow the instructions is based on the 'knowledge' that had you done so, it would have worked as advertised. They'll swear on the Bible that this is true!

eternal life guaranteed ~



or triple your money back ~

Lemon laws don’t apply. The small print on the tithing slip says the church can spend your non-refundable donation on anything it wants, including blow and hookers.

I get their motivation for using that model...$$$. The strange thing is, the customers actually come back and buy more of the same product that didn't work!

A question:

Isn't this topic just/mostly about American Christianity and some primarily American groups like Scientology?

At least a sizable percentage of the non-Christian and non-cult religions I am aware of in the United States--Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Native American religions, etc.--do not use the primarily Christian American "business model" at all.

I don't see the topic of this thread as a question about "religion" per se, but about a specific assortment of primarily American, and mostly (by membership numbers) Christian, groups and cults.



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I took it to mean this is a religious business model in a very general sense, while at the same time making it obvious which religions it may apply to. I detected a bit of sarcasm too.

Roy G Biv Wrote:
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> I took it to mean this is a religious business
> model in a very general sense, while at the same
> time making it obvious which religions it may
> apply to. I detected a bit of sarcasm too.

Yup, you are undoubtedly correct.

I've just recently discovered Natan Slifkin's books ("THE CHALLENGE OF CREATION: Judaism's Encounter With Science, Cosmology, and Evolution," etc.), and I'm thinking in areas and ways which are broader, and are far deeper, than I've ever habitually thought before.

This topic was poking at my new reflexes.

Me, sarcastic????

;)

I wonder how the bass riff from Pink Floyd’s “Money” would sound when played on the Tabernacle organ.

I'm waiting for the book I ordered, "Cosmetology in the Eternities" which purports to prepare one to "look good until the End of Time".

I think that the mormon church is on the right track with their notion (yes, it's subliminal) that 'what's on the outside is all that counts.'

I would have thought that after your experience with alien probes you'd recognize that to some beings it's what's inside that counts.

I'm sure that you're aware that the donut hole from your mouth to your anus is "outside" the body.

You are absolutely a torus, Gladys!

And you, Jesus, are a Tapir's tush complete with diamond-encrusted emerods.

A true gem of a human!

But only one of us has stated facts!

Torus! Torus! Torus!