Strange parallels in religion...

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Originally Posted by Elspode

It is all about money and power, pure and simple. Nothing more. True spirituality is an inward experience. It has outward manifestations, sure, but the minute anyone practicing any sort of outward spirituality starts trying to tell *you* what you *must* or *must not* do, run screaming in the other direction...and keep your hand on your wallet.

I stepped into a Russian church out in the boondockski, that had kept right on doing what it was doing all through the Soviet era, and felt the spirituality ...
I stepped into the newly rebuilt Church of Christ The Saviour in Moscow and smelt only money and power ...