Comments on: Selling Salvation II: Setting a Price for Your Product http://druidjournal.net/2008/07/19/selling-salvation-ii-setting-a-price-for-your-product/ Spiritual Guidance by Word, Card, and Star Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:51:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Druid Journal » Blog Archive » Selling Salvation III: Property and Prostitution http://druidjournal.net/2008/07/19/selling-salvation-ii-setting-a-price-for-your-product/comment-page-1/#comment-167943 Druid Journal » Blog Archive » Selling Salvation III: Property and Prostitution Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:20:57 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/?p=296#comment-167943 [...] Quite apart from that, I argued that a free market in religious ideas (or any kind of information) tends to drive prices down to zero.  I decided that it was not only probably immoral to sell information; it was, in the long run, almost impossible.  Therefore, immediately, I started offering everything on my site for free. [...] [...] Quite apart from that, I argued that a free market in religious ideas (or any kind of information) tends to drive prices down to zero.  I decided that it was not only probably immoral to sell information; it was, in the long run, almost impossible.  Therefore, immediately, I started offering everything on my site for free. [...]

]]> By: Kate Gladstone http://druidjournal.net/2008/07/19/selling-salvation-ii-setting-a-price-for-your-product/comment-page-1/#comment-92159 Kate Gladstone Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:56:32 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/?p=296#comment-92159 Thanks for your comments; from what I know, the Abrahamic religions *all* operate on the sign-up-your-children plan (and, most of them, on the sign-up-your-spouse-too plan if the spouse doesn't already belong: at least, many sects make conversion of the non-member partner a pre-condition for getting married in the faith. (Islam, as you may know, has a *very* one-sided take on this: in most Islamic sects, as I recall, a Muslim man may have a non-Muslim wife or concubine -- e.g., many harems included non-Muslims -- but a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam before the wedding.)\ However -- again, from what little I know -- not only the Abrahamic sects go in for making sure that the kids believe the same way as the parents. At least, from what I know of (some) members of Asatru (the modern revival of ancient Scandinavian spirituality), they would feel very upset indeed (perhaps outraged?) if any of their kids grew up to choose some other path. Thanks for your comments; from what I know, the Abrahamic religions *all* operate on the sign-up-your-children plan (and, most of them, on the sign-up-your-spouse-too plan if the spouse doesn’t already belong: at least, many sects make conversion of the non-member partner a pre-condition for getting married in the faith. (Islam, as you may know, has a *very* one-sided take on this: in most Islamic sects, as I recall, a Muslim man may have a non-Muslim wife or concubine — e.g., many harems included non-Muslims — but a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam before the wedding.)\

However — again, from what little I know — not only the Abrahamic sects go in for making sure that the kids believe the same way as the parents. At least, from what I know of (some) members of Asatru (the modern revival of ancient Scandinavian spirituality), they would feel very upset indeed (perhaps outraged?) if any of their kids grew up to choose some other path.

]]> By: Jeff Lilly http://druidjournal.net/2008/07/19/selling-salvation-ii-setting-a-price-for-your-product/comment-page-1/#comment-92116 Jeff Lilly Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:16:44 +0000 http://druidjournal.net/?p=296#comment-92116 Kate, regarding salvation-sellers that require you to purchase additional packages for your family and children: frankly I think this is rather icky, and reminds me a lot of pyramid schemes. It is true that rich, detailed belief systems are frequently best learned when young, and personally I think it's much better to raise children <i>with</i> such a system than without one, particularly if the system is child-friendly. However, I think this should be the choice of the parents, not required for religious membership. Kate, regarding salvation-sellers that require you to purchase additional packages for your family and children: frankly I think this is rather icky, and reminds me a lot of pyramid schemes. It is true that rich, detailed belief systems are frequently best learned when young, and personally I think it’s much better to raise children with such a system than without one, particularly if the system is child-friendly. However, I think this should be the choice of the parents, not required for religious membership.

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