Thank God religion isn’t a tool to control the masses, can you imagine it was?
A study from a hundred years ago proves that
Godmoney was right all along.Thanks, Fox.
First off, this is a fucking ad. Article author is Mark Gerson who repeatedly references a book titled “God Was Right” written by… Mark Gerson… Set to release next month.
Second, just some of my “favorite” parts:
Contemporary research has shown that we can enjoy and find meaning in any job as long as we frame it correctly. This is called “job crafting.”
Numerous studies have found that there is a productivity ceiling.
The rate of production slowed for the hours 50 to 55.
However, there was no increase in output from hours 56 to 70.
“That extra 14 hours was a waste of time.”
And so, we now have the number of what we have termed the “productivity ceiling”: It’s 55 hours a week.
And here’s the amazing and maybe divine math.
A Sabbath observer can work 10 hours a day for five days a week. He can really only work half a day on the sixth, as he needs to prepare for Shabbat — leaving him with a 55-hour work week.And the “numerous studies” was 2, both using the same data, which was on manual labor from World War I.
He can take his religion and fuck himself in the ass with it.
Guess that answers this question
10 hours on the clock. 1-2 hours commuting both ways. 1/2 hour eating lunch away from home. 2 hours on basic needs. 8 sleeping. 2 with kids and pets.
This ensures that you will be incapable of happiness or enrichment and will spend every rest day frantically trying to do the stuff you couldn’t get done and then vegetating.
Eventually you will burn out if you aren’t 20.
This isn’t an optimal schedule it’s schedulinh a break down
This is being misinterpreted. Back in the bible days they didn’t have to commute and have clean clothes and not smell like shit. When you consider all that as work plus washing and errands on the weekend we’re all working 70 hour weeks. The bible and god himself in all his wisdom and Jesus are telling, no commanding us to work at least 20 hours less a week. Much closer to a 4 or 3 and a half days in the office and the rest is made up of modern life. This is the correct and true interpretation as Christ insisted.
Alternatively Jesus predating all of modern science and medicine had no way to estimate what kind of schedule would be optimal and was just telling people not to work literally every single day.
Most units of time are based on nature. A day is one rotation of the Earth. A month is the moon’s orbit. A year is the Earth’s path around the sun.
But a week? There’s no natural explanation for it.
Well, given that a moon cycle is about 28 days long, each quarter of that is 7 days. Before we had electric lights at night, most people were very aware of the moon phase.
I have never seen that clip before. He was so dumbfounded by O’Reilly’s example of a mysterious force that he resorted to sarcasm. Ngl I don’t think I could have even responded to that
Isn’t Fox News sort of the Onion, though?
Yeah, except their viewers think it’s real.
Fucking Fox News.
I hate this time line. All the advancements just to make life worse. I saw an article yesterday of a European country looking to raise the retirement age since people live longer. Even at work I have a program that monitors me to the second, and can tell if I’m clicking, typing, or “just moving the mouse.” WFH can mean being on call 24/7. Any advice is always how to make do, or downsize. Which isn’t bad in itself, but it’s to “cope” with oligarchs wringing us dry for every second of time, and any money we happen to have. As things get “better”, they just manage to make it worse. It’s like the mere idea of a employee being treated like a human being and not their ID never is blasphemy. We have kids in factories and fast food jobs. This is ridiculous, and cruel. We should all be working less.
Have you tried giving up and just rotting into the ground?
Rotting in the ground? Sounds like some woke carbon sequestration scheme. To the biodiesel rendering plant with you, peasant!
Wow this really is blatant and out in the open. You have to be really dumb to not see how obvious this is (very uneducated, indoctrinated, deeply religious).
This is one of the main purposes of religion. To get slaves to work. The slaves of the time were obviously uneducated, and easily manipulatable with superstitious thinking. Convince them when they die, they’ll go to heaven and live in paradise. As long as you obey, keep working, and don’t fight back.
Its so blatantly obvious, and its right there on FOX news, in the year of our lord 2025. Yowza, the Christians who fall for this are absolutely idiotic, it’s hard not to feel pity, as its really not their fault.
Nah, anyone believing in a loving sky daddy as described by the vast majority of religions in the year 2025 yet can believe this kind of anti-human tripe is absolutely contributing to the problem, willfully and consciously.
Nah, as in, no pity, I assume?
The problem is, many believers (arguable how many, but it could be pretty substantial) could be regarded as legally mentally handicapped. This is generally regarded as an IQ of 70 or below. What about those that have IQs from 70-85? Not legally disabled, but very easy to manipulate by intelligent people and would have a difficult time navigating propaganda.
Are the extremely stupid at fault? I’d say no, the entire blame should be placed on those in power who are manipulating these people for personal gain. It’s truly psychopathic and sadistic.
But no pity whatsoever to someone who is smart enough to understand, but chooses to go along due to cowardice or other reasons.
You should work more so that the 1% can buy more mansions and bigger yachts.
Duh.
You should work more so that the 1% can buy more mansions and bigger yachts.
Someone didn’t read the article before taking the rage-bait!
This work doesn’t need to be paid. Volunteering and child-rearing certainly count as long as the activity is demanding, consistent and productive.
Volunteering and child-rearing doesn’t really build a mansion or yacht now does it?
Your apologetics is unbecoming. The article is intentionally written to promote the notion that a 40-hour work week is unbiblical, and the line you’ve cited is included to give plausible deniability to anyone who says otherwise.
If you take into account any “activity [that] is demanding, consistent and productive” most people are already “working” way more than 55 hours a week, especially if they’re a parent. To suggest otherwise is profoundly ignorant or disingenuous. This suggests an ulterior motive: begin manufacturing consent to get rid of weekly work hour limits.
Negative. Opposite intention… It takes more than 15 hours a week to raise a child properly. I would argue this is a good stance to reduce the workload on people as far as “jobs” go.
You don’t need to argue random bullshit. Take their argument, and take it to the logical extreme. Done. Now they have to admit that the 40 hour work-week for jobs is excessive.
Edit: Basically make the looney religious nuts eat their words… in case that wasn’t clear.
Is your reading comprehension ok?
It takes more than 15 hours a week to raise a child properly
That’s MY point
So you agree that what you wrote in your original comment is a bullshit defense of a bullshit article?
Is your reading comprehension ok?
Yours clearly isn’t.
You took the rage bait. You took their article to mean something when you can easily make it mean EXACTLY what your point is. You’re just too into arguing with random people on the internet to realize it.
Y’all are crazy.
Hou are illiterate if you genuinely believe all this crap you’ve spewed… No wonder you defend “biblical” teachings… Genuinely, your reading comprehension is below an already low average, and that is relevant to the conversation.
You might want to proofread your own post before talking about literacy. Your very first word is typo’d.
And I couldn’t give a shit about biblical anything. I’m atheist.
Edit: Oh and literacy is capability of reading/writing. Not about what someone believes. So you might want to check back into elementary school with that other guy too.
