...they are all specifically designed to make you feel like a winner, while at the same time robbing you of your money and dignity.
-Sab
Organized Religions are like slot machines at a casino...
by sabastious 6 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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miseryloveselders
Funny to me that you posted this. I was researching WT articles on Lottery Tickets, which by the way, I only found one article on the subject. There were a ton of negative mentions of Lottery tickets in other nonrelated articles however. So I browsed on here using the search engine to see the apostate thoughts on this subject, and Farkel compared the JWs and other religion's marketing of themselves to people as bing similar to gambling and lottery tickets. The positive thing about lottery tickets are you can choose how much you wish to invest and not lose too much. With the JW mindset, and other organized religions is, you gamble away your whole life waiting on something that more and more looks like its not going to happen. Lately I'm more envious of an athiest's or humanist's life than I am of a regular pioneer.
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unshackled
Good one, Sab. At least with slot machines every now and then someone wins something. Organized religion is the slot machine that NEVER pays out.
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Ding
Do you think this is true of all organized religion?
What about the Salvation Army, for example, which provides a lot of food, clothing, and shelter to the poor?
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unshackled
Hey Ding, as a generalized statement on the vast majority I think it rings true. But yes, there are likely good examples such as the Salvation Army. Though I don't know the ins and outs of their operation at all, in terms of money distribution, etc. The fact that all religious orgs get tax exemption is a slippery slope. Greed usually creeps in somewhere.
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OUTLAW
You can actually win something at a Slot Machine..
No one wins at Religion..
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sabastious
What about the Salvation Army, for example, which provides a lot of food, clothing, and shelter to the poor?
SA has a charity section of their religion. You don't have to be an organized religion to have or be a charity. SA is an awesome provision to this world, but not thanks to religion, thanks to basic human decency.
-Sab
