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   [Date]: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:58:48 -0600
   [From]: Juan JosŽ D’az Infante <jdiazinfante@altamiracave.com>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Macdonalds and Vatican same thing

Dianne

Thank you for calling me insane.
If you do not understand the past, it is even harder to understand the
present, because in such position things happen without reason (gratuito) o=
r
there is the tendency to rediscover the sixties.

In this statement I do not mean to study all the past, but actually linear
research on how certain processes came into work. This helps knowing the
actual mechanisms in play.

>
>> The Church and Money. We inherited the structure
>> of the church that later the modern corporation
>> adopted. Some historians refer this insane transition
>> to Amsterdam in the XVI Century where the windows
>> of the church were replaced by the images of
>> the important bankers.
>
> Your "insane transition" here is indeed insane. The structures of the
> modern corporation (if we have the same concept of structures), are
> based on systems of barter and trade that have nothing to do with
> Christianity.

I am assuming that you know little about franchises and reproduction of
business. The structure of power is exactly the same in a modern corporatio=
n
than it is in the church.

As far as any company using today=B4s date as 21 of December of 1999, it
happens to be after Christ. We have inherited a lot of elements and behavio=
r
from the church that we do not even recognize them.




Juan