YESTERDAY, we had the Pope telling us that money wasn’t real. Today we learn from the UK Association of Christian Financial Advisers – you better believe it; it really does exist – that there’s a killing to be made from the current financial melt-down.
Said Marie Potter, ACFA’s chair, in this report:
Some people will be becoming quite rich with the market as it is now. It’s not every fund that is going down. We certainly wouldn’t recommend to our clients to cash in any investments yet. We might actually recommend them to invest.
This was because the market was currently so low, she explained, with the FTSE 100 index drifting around the 4,300 mark on Thursday.
ACFA advises people to “listen to the financial recommendations laid down in the Bible” regarding money management, spending and saving.
The organisation promotes eight biblical principles for financial stability. These are:
1 God owns 100 per cent of everything
2 Deal fairly with others
3 Give generously
4 Plan ahead
5 Spend less than you own
6 Borrow cautiously and repay, lend freely
7 Establish a savings plan
8 Make provision.
No 1 is just plain daft. Something that doesn’t exist can own anything. And what’s particularly “biblical” about 2 through to 8?
According to ACFA, one of its aims is to:
Provide a breeding ground for Christians who wish to come into the industry or to develop their skills.
Here is ACFA Statement of Faith.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
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Anyone who owns everything actually owns nothing. Unless you actually enforce your claim, through law or force, others will simply claim it as their own. And then it’s theirs.
*next I go on to prove that black is white and get myself killed at the next zebra crossing.* (paraphrased from Douglas Adams.)
Seriously, if the invisible magical friend really owns everything, he must be the one to blame for the current financial mess.