America's religion is not Christianity. It is money and material possessions.

[Kievan Rus]

What do you think?

[QC]

1. I agree. Our religion is capitalism. Money is our sacrament. n/t

[wuvuj]

24. Jeebus himself wants funnymentalists to be rich....

...

[Double T]

2. "In GREED We Trust"

[gatorboy]

3. I think churches like First Assembley of God have pushed the business angle more than most.

As a kid, I remember going to a First Assembly Church with a friend and his family. And they were always pushing to get wealthier business owners interested in their church. They were concentrating on moneyh even back then (I's say this was early 80's).

That is of course when they could spare time from the KISS record burnings. :P

[Stevenmarc]

32. Really?

then you never met the Mormons

[niceypoo]

4. I think that the republican party is a religious cult

I work with a baptist minister who, when speaking about religion, does not know where GOP talking points end and christianity begins. They are one in the same to him and interchangeable.

Money has effectively replaced Jesus as the object of worship and the bible is only used to justify the love of money or RW political beliefs. It is a cult by every measure of the word.

I would not, however, go so far as to call it 'Americas religion.'

[AuntPatsy]

5. Of course it is but sadly the sheeple seem so unaware...I honestly do not understand

how they can so easily dismiss the obvious....

[Angry Dragon]

8. They are taught to have faith in their leaders n/t

[Codeine]

21. I hate it when "progressives" say sheeple

as though they stand above the common herd. You are not in possession of any greater wisdom or intellectual faculty than the average person. You do not exist on a higher plane, understanding greater truths than the "sheeple" have grasped.

[XemaSab]

6. "Head like a Hole" should be the national anthem

:P

[JamesA1102]

7. Don't forget sex! nt

[slay]

9. Amen to that!

:donut: :popcorn: :patriot: :(

[babylonsister]

10. Why do Americans need to have a religion to act like human beings?

To show compassion and/or lend a hand for those who need it? I think people can do what their ethics tell them to; your brush is way too broad.

[elocs]

28. The broad brush is a favorite DU tool, particularly in regard to religion. n/t

[obliviously]

11. Hedonism has aways been the man world religion

nothing new

[charlie]

12. Well, there's that Prosperity Gospel crap

which seems to have enthralled up to a quarter of churchgoing Americans, so you can have 2 great flavors in one.

[anonymous171]

13. Just look at the conservative "christians" attempting to rewrite the bible

in order to make it more capitalist and less anti-rich for proof.

[TexasObserver]

14. In the Americas, Christianity has been used to support taking land by force.

It has been used against the world to justify stealing oil rich lands.

Christianity has long been a fellow traveler of wealth and power, and seldom are its leaders far from either.

[MajorChode]

18. Not so much any more, though

The word is out on those tricks. Now it's just mainly used to finance the GOP and missionary trips to countries with lax child sex laws.

[Voice for Peace]

15. I think the real religion of our time is obeisance to the great god Fear.

just say no.

[Initech]

16. Why else do you think they put "in god we trust" on the dollar?

[LatteLibertine]

17. Naked greed

with the worst being pure sociopaths. Indeed, I have no doubt many CEOs are indeed full blown sociopaths. The overwhelming majority of corporations certainly behave in that manner.

Christianity is supposed to be about treating others as you wish to be treated and taking care of the least among us. It heavily warns against greed and love of money.

[xchrom]

19. power. conservative evangelical christian are interested in power.

it's why they captivated by irrational thoughts about gay folk, women, abortion, fears about islam, etc

all of these topics lead to control of people sitting in the pews -- and if they AREN'T sitting in their pews -- then the pew sitters in their conservative churches can threaten everyone else.

[cliffordu]

20. Yep.

[Codeine]

22. Except you, of course.

You stand above it all, morally pure and untainted by the natural acquisitiveness that has marked man since we crawled out of the trees. You alone have risen to a place of fantastic and unalloyed transcendence of being.

[Golden Raisin]

23. Just for the record, greedy bastards

and eager servants of Mammon that we may be, your basic premise/assumption that Christianity is "America's religion" is not true. As practiced by many in the United States today it isn't even Jesus' religion.

[TicketyBoo]

30. Yes, in the Bible

it was termed Mammon.

The Republicans pick and choose what they want to believe.

[bridgit]

25. ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XFMCgeI7c

[NoSheep]

26. Yep. Hypocritocracy

[earth mom]

27. Agree and I've thought it to be true since the 80s. nt

[Anakin Skywalker]

29. Damn Straight, G!

[Dorian Gray]

31. I do think

you have a point.

[JoDog]

33. Utterly agree

My studies to convert to Judaism have brought up this idea in my mind. It seems it this society we do worship idols--money, material goods and fame (however earned, if earned at all). I'm as guilty as anyone. The question for me is how to lessen it in my own life.

[City Lights]

34. Agreed. nt

[juno jones]

35. Christianity and mammon are unconfortably entwined.

The moment I saw that, I truly realized that they had no sense of irony about it either.