My realization right now was how when I feel conflicted, like two external voices are trying to lead me, like we see in cartoons of a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other, I go to the temple where I believe the other voice will be silenced. It just occurred to me that this is why our religious leadership are not paid, because political view points become law through lobbying or other expressions of power that all have a common denominator of money.
Leverage is spoken of, meaning power os exercised over another by promises. In even the best intentioned government, the voice is the one with the bucks, afterall, money speaks. I think that is where the idea of caring for the minority or those who seem to not be able to speak because of poverty or something.
It is a common knowledge that money does not play a role in the maintainance of church leadership, and though I have kniwn this, I had not realized it as any significant thing until I compared it to what causes any body to act.
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