Religion in US 'worth more than Google and Apple combined'

[umbertino]

Faith economy worth $1.2tn a year – more than combined revenues of 10 biggest tech firms in America, study shows

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent

Thursday 15 September 2016 10.43 BST Last modified on Thursday 15 September 2016 11.35 BST

St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York. More than 150 million Americans are members of faith congregations, according to the report.

Photograph: Getty

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/15/us-religion-worth-1-trillion-study-economy-apple-google

 

 

[EagleEye]

without even reading the article I can answer the premise.....

Religion by definition equates  to man's feeble and doomed to fail attempts to reach GOD...like the Tower of Babel....IMHO GOD does not want your "religion", my "religion" or anyone's "religion" for that matter....GOD desires a relationship one which HE HIMSELF fostered by sending HIS SON to die for the sins of all mankind....AS HE PROMISED IN THE GARDEN AFTER THE FALL......and because as Paul told Timothy : 1Ti 6:10  For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Into the breech many are willing to run and offer their "spin" on "religion" for filthy lucre (dirty money) : Peter: 1Pe 5:2  Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;  Paul : *** 1:11  Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. Jesus: Mat 10:8  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

GOD walked with Adam in the cool of the day.....and having created man in HIS own image and likeness has made a way for ALL to have that same RELATIONSHIP.....

though people don't often relish the simplicity of the Gospel preferring instead a series of does and don't by which they can measure themselves against their fellow man or some man-made standard of righteousness...

to set the record straight I offer three simple Scriptural truths for everyone's consideration:

 

 

Jesus/Yeshua said :   

Joh 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Joh 14:7  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

John :  

Rev 13:8  And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Rev 13:9  If any man have an ear, let him hear.

 

Gen 1:1  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

These simple three Words in the Ancient Hebrew languages were originally a series of pictographic symbols that read:

 

the Son of GOD crushed His hand on a cross......

religion therefore really IS an opiate of the people whereas relationship with the Lord is free and the only way to reach GOD...

 

Eagle sermon ended !!