Topic: Money and wealth as the major religions in world. - page 6. (Read 2214 times)

I don't understand how you relates religion and money. Everyone is working throughout their life for making money. Because basic concept of life is liberty money can give that. In some extend money can give security, power,safety, even happiness. Many people meaninglessly chasing money the reason behind this, is that maximum people in this society judge a person by the person's job and the amount of money the person has. So we should understand the true value of money, to be happy in life will need many things like  health, relationship etc. Money is just one of them, not everything. Sandeep maheswari once said money is important as fuel in a car without fuel a car cannot move but we never drive a car just to fill up it with  more fuel.

The way that you say it makes me believe that you're a person that doesn't have any spirit within them and that you're a slave to a construct that was created by our masters/puppeteers. Money isn't a religion, it's a desire that the people behind the curtain use to make people submissive and at the same time keep them on their heels because they're chasing the bag instead of looking for freedom that they've lost a long time ago. Plus it's not like money is a bad thing because it's not like anyone who has it is automatically using it for nefarious purposes.

I did see a documentary about people going to the jungle because they have a lot of debts and after selling everything to pay them off, they went to the jungle to spend their lives without money, hunting for food, growing food, and so on. To be sure, you make an excellent point that the world today could not improve without money, but it did for our forefathers. However, what people are doing now is so greedy for money that they are willing to harm others in order to obtain it. It does indeed bring happiness, but true happiness has a different definition.

Religion should be a very personal individual matter that connects the person to God through his faith, but in fact, that isn't what really happens in most religions, especially the most powerful ones, that are also coincidentally the wealthiest ones. These religions don't preach the independence of their followers in search for their inner connection with God, instead they preach the subservience to men who speak for the religions.

And to make this process work efficiently, religions have a common element behind: money. That is logical, because religions attract suffering, needing, hopeless people. Some have money, but have an empty feeling inside themselves at same time, so they donate and enrich the religions to try appeasing that bite feeling (as religions promise it will happen), while others are desperate for money and also approach religions for that reason, being helped through donations, if they become serfs of a religion in particular.

This way religions keep growing and gathering more followers within time. The more money they have, faster and more intensily it happens. So yes, money and wealth can be considered the major religions in the world... But I can't say if it's so bad as it looks at first glance, because maybe there is a positive purpose on it on long run, that only God knows.

There must be clarity on how to make money illegally and by what means, because illegal has nothing to do with religion and legal or illegal only has to do with law.
And as I know, religion requires us to be rich in order to live happily and also fulfill our needs and but in a good way and not the result of stealing or usurping people's rights.

if you mean crypto or bitcoin I don't think it has anything to do with religion because everyone just wants to make money from there in a good way and for the welfare of their family, unless they get it from theft or fraud and it's forbidden by religion and also law.

Yes because for them to earn Money is to COLLECT LEGALLY like what churches are doing 

How can you consider a Illegally collected money or making money? example in your country Bitcoin is illegal but in the majority of the world this is not, so is this still wrong to collect and make profit?

But that is the trend , connecting crypto in everything in the world.

actually it is indeed part of religion because remember that churches are taking money from their members .

That's right we have to agree first that basically all religions don't teach how to earn money illegally,
everything does require money but if the method we use to get money is illegal such as stealing of course it is opposed

I think we should not mix up religion and the dreams of making money.
I agree that people are more interested in acquiring more and more money but we should not mix it up with religion no religion teaches it, followers, to acquire money in illegal ways.
Religion is a personal matter of every individual which should not be mixed up with the greed of acquiring more money.

These days smart workers and people following the passion are getting successful in money making. In each and everything there is money, you need to be popular or you need to have good capital to make money. People are more cautious in spending compared to the past, because everyone understood the pain of moving the life during the pandemic. Very few get the opportunity to follow their passion, because to fulfil family needs most of the young generation sacrifice their passion and continue a day job.

It is always easy to make money from money. Those who have extra money they should not waste it or spend it on their pressures.

If they could invest their money in good projects or crypto, they could get much more returns and can increase their total worth over the time.

The importance of money in our society cannot be overemphasized but that doesn't make everyone's mindset centred on money.
Yes everyone wants to make money, live happy, stay in health and have peace of mind but unlike your last statement, for some of us money isn't our topmost priority, we'll be happy to accumulate so many of it but if the means is going to cost our peace of mind, we'll rather search for an alternative.

In an ideal world it would have been like you described, and even in our not so perfect world many people live like this, but unfortunately not everybody. Very far from it, actually. There are many places in the world where people are working all the time without days off, and, as you rightly said, not to become rich, but just to have something to eat and wear, and to feed their kids.

Until very recently many Chinese IT companies were employing the so called "996 working hour system". It's when people work from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week. It was deemed illegal by China's Supreme People's Court only on 27 August 2021.

I don't agree with your last part. You are right that everybody spends most of his life working and making money, but this doesn't come from the desire to become rich. It's rather that money is necessary in our society, without it we couldn't pay rent or buy food. We all need money to survive. However there is a difference between having a good life and trying to become rich. If money would be our main goal in life then why do we take days off work, and why don't we have jobs on weekends? I believe that most of us strive for a good work life balance. Humans are not made to work 24/7, we need time with friends and family to regenerate our batteries. There are more important things in life than money.

Regarding that I have a personal opinion that wealth is certainly a legal thing for all religions,
Of course the wealth that is allowed is to get it lawfully and use it with what is useful and beneficial for the good of course,
On the other hand, when we use our wealth for useless things, of course it's not allowed but again we can't manage it all

Agreed, I live in a Christian country where we adhere to our religion to the statement, but I believe that people are changing because they are becoming greedy with money. If you listen to what the priests or pastors have to say about this, they will truly state that when it comes to money, people will change because they are becoming greedy. Aside from that, they always say that whatever you have right now is worthless if you die, because you can't bring it with you. I believe that what we should do instead is help each other and not lose focus of our religious beliefs just because of the abundance of wealth.

Money and wealth should not be called the main religions of the world. This is a very perverse and unworthy comparison for religion. The main religions of the world do not urge us to get rich. On the contrary, they preach moderation, the simplicity of ordinary life, and restraint. Only those who violate religious tenets strive for wealth and accumulation.
On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with wealth if it is earned legally. We live in a material world and must satisfy our physical needs.

Your explanation doesn't quite match some scenarios. Mark Zuckerberg for example work his ass off by becoming the CEO of Facebook, despite now that he doesn't do most of the codings and design, it all started by him till he was able to achieved what he had today.
Ex Microsoft boss, Bill Gate work from home until he became one of the richest billionaires we have today.

every normal person is a natural thing as a human being who has reason and ambition but behind that there is a religion that becomes a belief to prioritize spiritual rather than intellectual as a guide to peace of mind and satisfaction with what you have so you can be grateful and not fall on endless greed

You have clearly said that money and wealth is only your ambition .I think we have to respect who just thing other except its like religion you said about .Religion is a believe you never buy it with money and wealth.One thing is clearly known to us that we have to die .A person who are theistic and he has a ambition also what happen after death .For me money and wealth is nothing ,I have to follow my religion first .Money and wealth will never my religion and ambition .

Once, money was the solution to the problem of subsistence farming, with a classic exchange. As production became more complex and the assortment expanded, direct exchange became more and more complicated. Money appeared to solve the problem. Then, when money became "higher" than a commodity, it became a method of accumulating and forming wealth. Today, money is also synonymous with wealth. But now we have the opportunity to use them more widely - to buy goods, real estate, invest in our development and education of children, become investors in developing projects, start our own business. The only question is to earn them, and find the strength, not to skip them, but to invest, for example, in education. Perhaps this is the most difficult choice - how to deal with money?