Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns may not be working

Re:Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns... by matt4077 on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:21AM (#16307859)

Bishops don't have private planes. The catholic church has its own set of faults, and it is very rich. But they also have smart PR people, and a pope who doesn't like luxury, and they keep their bishops on a short leash.

Edit: I thought "bishop" was a specifically catholic title. It appears that some televangelists may have misappropriated not just the faith, but also the title.

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Re:Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns... by tialaramex on Monday February 05, 2018 @07:23AM (#16308341)

Most people think "Pope" is a Catholic title too, but Discordians believe all people (not even just Discordians) are Popes, and the crossover means that members of the Church of the SubGenius often acknowledge such Popes too.

Anyway, Catholicism is a lot bigger than the Roman Catholic Church. You have other very explicitly Catholic churches such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, and you also have faiths like Anglicanism, which are a weird hybrid where most (Roman) Catholics would consider them protestant, but they refer to themselves internally as a "Holy Catholic church", they have Bishops too (but no Pope, their spiritual head is for historical reasons the Queen of England) and so on.

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Re:Pyramid schemes causing social harm in China – crackdowns... by willvarfar on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:37AM (#16307921)

Just a quick googling for private plane bishops http://dustoffthebible.com/Blog-archive/2015/10/28/15-religi... - not Catholic, but still..

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