Religion can truly be an opiate for the masses,John Lloyd at the FT writes:
Again, as soon as the service ended, Kayanja strode off. I had seen people give what seemed like substantial sums to a church whose leader flaunted his wealth, and who promised they could be rich like him – richer, even, the more they gave. They had responded as if they were uplifted; saved. As people in Britain who were Nonconformists did decades ago, and as tens of millions of Americans, Latin Americans and Koreans do now, they had given money to a church that gave them in return the belief that they would go to heaven: more, that they would achieve earthly health and wealth...[continue reading]
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