Christian Greed: They Want Everything You Have

author: Temple of Zeus
updated by: High Priest Zevios Metathronos

Money, combined with enormous amounts of psychic energy drawn from the belief and worship of followers, is what keeps the Christian programme running. Don't be deceived by Christian "charity." Christianity creates the very poverty it claims to solve, and profits from the misery it generates.

The doctrine that poverty is a virtue pervades the New Testament. Jesus tells the rich young ruler: "Sell everything you have and give to the poor" (Luke 18:22). Paul writes: "The love of money is the root of all evil" (1 Timothy 6:10). The Sermon on the Mount declares: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:3). These doctrines, preached from pulpits to congregations whose conscious defences are lowered (bored, drowsy, in the mild hypnotic state that repetitive ritual produces), take hold at a subliminal level. The message sinks below conscious awareness and embeds itself in the operating assumptions of the listener's life. When millions of people internalise the belief that wealth is sinful, that wanting material security is a spiritual failing, that their poverty is a sign of divine favour: those who control the religion accumulate the wealth instead. The doctrine is a wealth-transfer mechanism dressed in theology.

Look at the results. The televangelists with private jets: Kenneth Copeland's ministry owns multiple aircraft, including a Gulfstream V valued at approximately $36 million. Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church sits in the former Compaq Center, a 16,000-seat arena. Osteen's home was valued at approximately $10.5 million. Creflo Dollar (his actual name) asked his congregation for $65 million to buy a Gulfstream G650 in 2015. These men tell audiences, many of whom are struggling financially, to "sow a seed of faith." To tithe. To give 10% of their pre-tax income to the church. The seed goes straight into the preacher's lifestyle.

The Vatican is one of the wealthiest institutions on Earth. Gerald Posner, in God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican (2015), documents estimated financial holdings of $10-15 billion, accumulated over centuries through tithes, the sale of indulgences (a practice so corrupt it triggered the Protestant Reformation in 1517), land seizures, the confiscation of property from those accused of heresy during the Inquisition, and the systematic exploitation of colonial populations. The Vatican Bank (Istituto per le Opere di Religione) has been implicated in money laundering scandals multiple times, most notably in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse of 1982, which involved the suspicious death of its chairman Roberto Calvi (found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London). This is the institution that preaches poverty as a virtue. This is Eilotil in its financial dimension: spiritual enslavement deployed to extract material resources from the very people the system impoverishes.

Compare this to the Ancient Pagan world. The temples of Greece, Egypt, and Rome were civic institutions that served the community. The temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus functioned as a healing centre open to all who came (Pausanias, Description of Greece II.27). The Library of Alexandria, attached to the temple of Serapis, was the greatest repository of knowledge in the ancient world: available to scholars regardless of their ability to pay. The Roman annona (grain dole) was administered through temple infrastructure. The priests of the ancient Gods served the community. They didn't demand a percentage of your income as a condition of divine favour. The Gods didn't need your money. They needed your devotion, your growth, your advancement toward Godhead.

The Birburim (false sacred speech) of the prosperity gospel is just the latest iteration of a 2,000-year-old extraction scheme: "God wants you to give" means "we want your money." The Abrahamic Inversion explains the full mechanism. The Family of the Gods offers the alternative: a spiritual path that enriches the soul rather than emptying the wallet.