Religion from the moment of its inception is subjected to various speculations. Disputes are based on questions of its origin and role in the lives of ordinary people. Modern religions represent religious organizations - this is a kind of stronghold in which all the principles of influence on the minds of mankind have been personified.
An organized religious group - good or bad?
The most common form with which a local religious organization can be represented is the Orthodox parish. As an offshoot of the church, such activities are supported at the government level, and therefore legal.
A natural question that arises in the minds of citizens who are faced with the phenomenon of the existence of such an organization: what is the basis of its activities? Unfortunately, there is no possibility of accepting official documents for consideration, since they simply do not exist. It can be said that an Orthodox religious organization is an arbitrarily formed circle, but its activity is always in the nature of propaganda. It consists of the following manifestations:
- bringing as many adherents to the organization as possible;
- drawing up the financial well-being of the organization.
The last point should be especially focused, since pumping out finances is a special element that distinguishes the activities of religious organizations. Since faith is an ephemeral, unprovable term, fraudsters representing the Word of God need nothing to begin to dictate their own conditions.
So, for the glory of God, the construction of a church may be “required”. In the absence of a certain amount of the budget, believing adherents begin a massive search for money. It is noted that religion has such a powerful effect on the consciousness of man that he is ready for the most desperate acts for the sake of imaginary good. So, for the sake of building a church, many sell their apartments, becoming individuals with no fixed abode.
Reasons for popularity
Each local religious organization is the result of the lack of the right direction of the population’s energy. People, as you know, need optimism, which in modern reality is sorely lacking. In search of support, amid a lack of financial well-being, no matter how scary it sounds, people have two main ways:
If alcoholism is officially considered a habit that destroys consciousness, then religion is considered a bastion of benefactors, although the modern church has done everything so that the number of true believers begins to steadily fade away.
The alleged goodness of religion
The principles on which the Russian Orthodox Church is based state that for everyone who finds themselves in a difficult situation, the local Orthodox religious organization is always ready to open its doors, but is this true? To determine the truth of these statements, you need to look at the opportunities that the church is able to provide. In fact, a person in distress needs:
- shelter;
- sleeping area;
- food.
If we mean by a shelter any building owned by the organization, then the only choice will be the premises of the church. All existing religious organizations do not deny this. It is forbidden to live in the building, respectively, neither a shelter nor a sleeping place can be provided. Money can serve as their equivalent, however, the principles of the church suggest that material wealth is an imaginary means in saving the soul. The only way to get food is to visit a communion or christening, however, as practice shows, both procedures are paid and are carried out in a selected circle of visitors who have managed to make a financial contribution to the development of their favorite organization.
Thus, if you become insolvent, you do not need an organization that represents a religion where everything has already become paid for a very long time.
Religious organizations are ...
In order to nevertheless answer the question about the true significance of such associations for society, it is necessary to find out who their head is and what unites their representatives.
The leading role is always taken by the official representative of religion (a person who has a spiritual rank). He plays the role of a manager who gives tasks to his wards (other members of the group). In the construction of the hierarchy (and religious organizations confirm this), the second most important role is played by the right hand of the representative of God's will. He is the connecting link that controls the level of fulfillment of all needs. All other members have the same significance - they are performers.
Activities
From the point of view of religion, the basis of its activity should be occupied by service to the glory of the Lord God, however, upon the fact, organizations are engaged in activities aimed at improving the financial condition of the apparatus. Additional types of earnings include:
- sale of candles;
- selling literature of our own production;
- paid baptismal services;
- sale of icons, prayer books;
- voluntary alms (you could see them in the form of ballot boxes that offer to donate money for the needs of the temple);
- street alms (each church must have at least two petitioners who ask for alms that go into the pocket of the church).
Lack of exposure
The church is exempted from taxes, and accordingly, there are no statements and items of expenses / receipts of financial resources. In fact, all processes are controlled by the chief one in rank. The distribution of the budget is entirely in the hands of one person who has the power to dispose of the funds received as he pleases.
For citizens who still doubt that religion is the most ingenious way of pumping money out of ordinary citizens who seek banal understanding, there is a wonderful example. The average cost of christening one child is 3500 rubles. 10-50 children are baptized per day (depending on the size of the institution).
Interesting fact! The cost of attributes from this amount is 200 rubles (aluminum cross, small icon). The rest is sent to the budget of the institution. Multiplying the daily income by the number of working days, you can understand how the representatives of the government owned luxury foreign cars of the latest models. The absurdity is the lack of desire among church representatives to hide their income level - they do not disdain to park their chic cars in the parking lot of their favorite charitable institution.
Output
Any religious organization is just an additional way to increase the budget of the church. Its activity is on the shady side, and citizens have no opportunity to expose as such. This gives the church a significant head start, thanks to which religion as a form of spiritual dependence will never disappear.