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Simple question. Did anyone in religious texts ever charge people to listen to them? If not, why do so many today?
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Among my 'required reading' is this wiki entry 'Timeline of Religions'
# 1 Prehistoric period (300th millennium to 34th century BCE)
* 1.1 300th to 51st millennium BCE
* 1.2 50th to 11th millennium BCE
* 1.3 100th to 34th century BCE
# 2 Ancient history (33rd century BCE to 3rd century CE)
* 2.1 33rd to 12th century BCE
* 2.2 13th to 9th century BCE
* 2.3 8th to 3rd century BCE
* 2.4 2nd century BCE to 4th century CE
# 3 Middle Ages (5th to 15th century)
* 3.1 5th to 9th century
* 3.2 10th to 15th century
# 4 Early modern and Modern era (16th to 20th century)
* 4.1 16th to 18th century
* 4.2 19th to 20th century
# 5 21st century
* 5.1 2000s
Content aside, if God didn't exist until writing about it did, or building churches, what was all the religious expression tens of thousands of years before about?
What's more likely?
-God's will wasn't known to ancient humans until they invented writing and learned how to make more than simply 1 room mud huts, aqnd invented Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, or
-God's made its will known all along.
Simple question. Did anyone in religious texts ever charge people to listen to them? If not, why do so many today?
Simple question. Did anyone in religious texts ever charge people to listen to them? If not, why do so many today?
Simple question. Did anyone in religious texts ever charge people to listen to them? If not, why do so many today?
????....who charges admissions?....you mean like retired politicians who get $250k to make a speech?.....
no, just curious why you think it has anything to do with a religious forum.....Simple question. Did anyone in religious texts ever charge people to listen to them? If not, why do so many today?
????....who charges admissions?....you mean like retired politicians who get $250k to make a speech?.....
Angry that they get paid to talk, or that your guy doesn't command as high a fee?
"Bushs standard speaking fee is reportedly between $100,000 and $150,000.
David Sherzer, a spokesman for the former president, said that since Bush left office he has delivered nearly 140 paid talks, at home and abroad. Those speeches have earned Bush about $15 million, following in the golden path blazed by his predecessor, Bill Clinton."
George W. Bush's $15 Million Speech Payday - The Daily Beast
"According to a CNN analysis of 12 years of federal financial records, former President Bill Clinton had his most active and profitable year on the lecture circuit in 2012, delivering 73 speeches for $17 million from mid-January 2012 through mid-January 2013. That brought his total haul in speaking fees since leaving the White House to $106 million."
First on CNN: Bill Clinton?s $106 million speech circuit windfall ? CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
Half the speeches but 7 times the money.
God and its will is not found in any synagogue, church, or mosque. Building buildings is relatively new, so did God not exist until buildings and writing about it did? Or has God and our ability to discern it preexisted going to a building, or reading a book?