Jan 11 2009
The church business model is genius!
If you analyze the church on a balance sheet, you could make the Enron guys crap their pants. This is genius in its pure form, the first intelligent thing I have seen in America since social networking and user-generated content. What better way is there to maximize your profits than by “volunteer work” and placing a Starbucks into a house of worship? If the “Big Three” operated like a sanctuary, taxpayers wouldn’t have to take out a third toxic mortgage on their overpriced and inefficient homes so they could support companies that make overpriced and inefficient vehicles.
Realistically, for anyone to take a church or religion in general, seriously, there has to be a sense of sacrifice. I suppose it’s much easier to retrieve and maintain followers if you tweak your doctrine to follow the American dream.
On a side note, I am a Christian, but I am also a skeptic, which is really a sucktastic dichotomy.
