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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI work for a corporation. How do I determine that corporation's religious beliefs?
(setting aside the absurdity of an artificial legal construct having religious beliefs in the first place)I'm an atheist whose immediate supervisor is Catholic.
He reports to another atheist, who is part of a management group that includes Christians and Hindus.
She reports to a Muslim, who reports to a Christian, who reports to the CEO, a Buddhist.
The company is 150 years old, so it's not like we have the original founders roaming the halls. Plus, so many mergers and acquisitions have taken place in that time, that it's not the original company at all anymore.
Who wins? Is it the CEO? In the 7 years I've worked there, we've had 5 CEOs. Would we get new insurance policies every 1.4 years, depending on the current CEO's personal beliefs?
valerief
(53,235 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)corporations are people
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)And if it's a public corporation it's irrelevant because the Hobby Lobby decision only applies to closely-held corporations.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I'm going to need a degree in Business Divinity to figure this out!
BootinUp
(47,207 posts)Tyrs WolfDaemon
(2,289 posts)One argument is: It has something to do with how all corporations that are 'honest' with themselves desire a free market system, and the Free Market must be a Christian creation (according to Supply Side Jesus).
Another is: Since God founded this country on the eighth day (I believe this is found in the Conservative Bible Project from Conservapedia) and left the constitution for the good Christian founding fathers to find, all the other religions don't count. That means everything born or created or incorporated here must be some form of Christian.
While I mean this in jest, I fear that there are some R's out there that would believe crap like this was true (even the God leaving the constitution for the Founding fathers to find)
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Corporations ARE people, you know.
Make sure they are attending church services and not a wedding or political jamboree or some such. (Corporations don't believe in separation of church/state, so you never know what they might be doing behind closed doors. They might even tell you how to vote in 2014.)