RELIGION OF COMMERCE

The Jews were the first to unite commerce and religion, the business of sacrificing sheep was the cornerstone of the economy in the middle east where there wasn’t much else going on because they hadn’t discovered oil yet, so the machine ran on blood instead.
In the Jewish culture everything was commoditized from salvation to marriage, it was customary to pay the father of the bride so many head of livestock for the privilege of marrying his daughter. Girls started getting married when they were as young as 13 years old when they were considered a woman and often had very little say in who they married. (If that’s not child prostitution I don’t know what is.) The temple tithe required 10 percent of gross income, a practice that is still used by the Christians. The religion of capitalism started by the Jews still survives and has been preserved and embraced by the Christian church.
It is easy to believe in the system of capitalism when you believe in a god that requires blood for the remission of sins. The “gospel” of the Christian church can be broken down into capitalistic terms and often is. The idea that ‘freedom isn’t free’ and the idea that Love requires a sacrifice are products of the Judeo-Christian mind-set. The notion of ‘Free Love’ is repulsive to the Christian because according to their parochial understanding, freedom and love are completely incompatible…they define love in terms of possession and control and freedom to them is liberation from their ‘sinful’ human nature which is where passion resides and true Love is found.