The other day, there were two individuals who walked up to the door after parking in the driveway. I saw each one of them toting a bible and I knew what they were up to. The next evening, early evening, a young man and a woman entered the driveway and approached the door. It turned out that she and her friend were wanting to demonstrate a vaccuum, and naturally, with the hope of selling me one. In each case, I politely ran them both off. Then I got to thinking, which can be dangerous.
Both sets of these individuals were trying to sell me something, just like they and their kind do all across America every day. When you give them access to your ear, one tells you that their vaccuum cleaner is the best because…and then they attempt to show HOW and WHY it is the best. The religious people attempt to show you HOW and WHY their brand of religion is the best thing going.
If you purchase a vaccuum cleaner, the door-to-door salesman receives compensation, his boss receives compensation as does the broker and the factory. If you agree to accept as blind truth what the religious salesmen want you to, they will invite you to whatever church or Kingdom Hall or whatever they refer to their places of worship as. In fact, the more people they can get to attend, the more donations they will receive and, hence, the more money the religious “leader” will receive. It is not unheard off for these individuals to receive compensation in the hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, with free housing and free vehicles for themselves and spouses. If enough people can be sold on a particular brand of Christianity, then they can even get their service broadcast on the radio or TV.
The owner of the vaccuum factory gets to live in a nice mansion worth millions, and, if successful enough in selling their religious goods, the leader of the religious sect can do the same. Since very few of the religious individuals, outside of the Preacher, Bishop, Pastor, Father, or whatever actually get paid (volunteers can be found that are more than willing to donate time and materials to “help” the sect), large sums of tax-free money is deposited and used to build giant edifices sometimes referred to as “churches”.
The best vaccuum cleaner salesman can move up the ladder by selling great sums of cleaners. He may become a “team leader”, section manager or District manager or whatever. The good Preacher, Pastor or whatever can live in bigger and bigger houses and be enticed to do their thing in larger and larger congregations, naturally for a lot more money at each step up the religious ladder. The bottom line is, the better you are in selling your “product”, the further you will advance and the more money you will make. If you are, well, not so good at what you do, you will have to find another job or work part-time selling vaccuums or preaching.
The vaccuum seller can tell you how the thing works without a manual, and even then, doesn’t know why it works. The future preacher has to go to school to have HIS manual explained to him or her…of course for a cost. The reality is, most of these individuals who are “sold” the bill of goods by door-to-door religious salemen have no idea what their particular religious sect believes in or why it believes the way they do or the reasons behind it. So, over the next few months, I will write about these differences. Included will be Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, Presbyterianism, Baptists, Methodism, Anglicanism, Coptic Church, Mormanism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science and the United Church of Christ.
