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Too tired to say much coherent, but this article made me LOL.
The 53-year-old head of Britain’s second-biggest bank said banks are the “backbone” of the economy. Rewarding high- performing bankers with more pay doesn’t conflict with Christian values, he said. Varley was paid 1.08 million pounds ($1.77 million) and no bonus in 2008.
“Talent is highly mobile,” Varley, a Catholic, said. “If we fail to pay or are constrained from paying competitive rates then that talent will move to another employer.”
“Is Christianity and banking compatible? Yes,” he said in an interview after the speech in the 283-year-old church. “And is Christianity and fair reward compatible? Yes.”
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“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.”
For as the great Matthew once wrote: And Jesus went into the temple, and cast out those who did not own stock in his company, and for the lone dove-seller who got his brother a sweet gig selling doves somewhere in Palestine he gave him all the money he had collected from the humble and the meek and among his disciples.
And when the disciples asked him "what the fuck are you doing?," Jesus replied, "I hath come to give God's favor to his Chosen one, the one who has shown me the most ass-kissing."
"But are we not all equal under God's eyes?"
"What the fuck kinda socialist bullshit is that? You want this moneychanger and that dove-seller and that shish-kabob vendor to pack up their wares and go sell in that temple down in Egypt? No? Then shut the fuck up and let me do my work!"
And then Jesus proceeded to kick the buttocks of a poor man who had the tenacity to want to pay homage to God but had only five shekels on him, and then he ripped the shekels from his hand and tossed them to the moneychanger.
And the disciples whined and bitched and moaned, but eventually they went away, for after all, he was Jesus, and surely he must have the people's best interests at heart, right?
And that was the beginning of the first MEGATEMPLE OF GOD in Jerusalem.
The 53-year-old head of Britain’s second-biggest bank said banks are the “backbone” of the economy. Rewarding high- performing bankers with more pay doesn’t conflict with Christian values, he said. Varley was paid 1.08 million pounds ($1.77 million) and no bonus in 2008.
“Talent is highly mobile,” Varley, a Catholic, said. “If we fail to pay or are constrained from paying competitive rates then that talent will move to another employer.”
“Is Christianity and banking compatible? Yes,” he said in an interview after the speech in the 283-year-old church. “And is Christianity and fair reward compatible? Yes.”
[...]
“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.”
For as the great Matthew once wrote: And Jesus went into the temple, and cast out those who did not own stock in his company, and for the lone dove-seller who got his brother a sweet gig selling doves somewhere in Palestine he gave him all the money he had collected from the humble and the meek and among his disciples.
And when the disciples asked him "what the fuck are you doing?," Jesus replied, "I hath come to give God's favor to his Chosen one, the one who has shown me the most ass-kissing."
"But are we not all equal under God's eyes?"
"What the fuck kinda socialist bullshit is that? You want this moneychanger and that dove-seller and that shish-kabob vendor to pack up their wares and go sell in that temple down in Egypt? No? Then shut the fuck up and let me do my work!"
And then Jesus proceeded to kick the buttocks of a poor man who had the tenacity to want to pay homage to God but had only five shekels on him, and then he ripped the shekels from his hand and tossed them to the moneychanger.
And the disciples whined and bitched and moaned, but eventually they went away, for after all, he was Jesus, and surely he must have the people's best interests at heart, right?
And that was the beginning of the first MEGATEMPLE OF GOD in Jerusalem.