Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:51:40 -0500 Message-ID: <57DB88A6.575D@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:52:38 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.atheism,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Atheism is Witchcraft References: <57D5B3F1.462D@ix.netcom.com> <57d892de$0$62266$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com> <57d8af6e$0$61807$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com> <57da172e$0$61822$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 44 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-FwsFO8/i8XCfrmTA9uXhTOcNV06P9vhLiqPAcPGGAwjQqVfdfjFYWLmVEmjC/7Kkn2JJOFXGV14AGfB!BgWEjsV2k07bIAdk3nvJN67EvJ1Ke9Fh3vJGBYgkpveQKUnPvOAPZD+ELKeIbqh7i7Ik9buviXzJ!Sb1H8jHxOro= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2886 Xref: csiph.com alt.atheism:2169044 rec.arts.sf.written:451547 sci.physics:597125 sci.physics.relativity:392544 Thomas Heger wrote: > > Am 15.09.2016 11:50, schrieb Jeanne Douglas: > > >> Services of the various kinds, like e.g. the work of a lawyer, do not > >> necessarily contain material objects. > >> > >> This is why they are called 'services' and not 'sale'. > >> > >> Commercial services are different to churches, since they are in fact > >> commercial, while a church is not. > >> > >> Most religions are strictly non-commercial. > > > > BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > Most people overestimate the importance of money. > > A church is not really a business and has not primarily commercial > interests. Churches are related to the spiritual realm and cover > philosophical questions, ethics and moral. > > People also try to acquire certain experiences, that are elevated above > the usual life. > > Something as profane as money does not really fit into such a picture. > > And most churches are actually poor. > > But there are major exceptions from this rule, like e.g. the Catholic > Church. > > But being wealthy does not mean, that the Catholics only exist to earn > money. > > TH a church is a hospitol for sinners...if you murder someone, and it bothers you...you don't want to be stupid enought to confess to the police...you confess to the church. It's a hospitol for...sinners. Then you're free to murder someone else.