Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
Customers prefer honesty over religious alignment, besides if your business can't take the loss of the very few bigots who refuse to do business with an atheist, then the business was probably doomed anyways.
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Atheist Business with Christian Customers.
- Thread starter IndigoStorm
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Customers prefer honesty over religious alignment, besides if your business can't take the loss of the very few bigots who refuse to do business with an atheist, then the business was probably doomed anyways.
MapMistress
Member
My grandparents lied. It was the 1940s/1950s and they owned a newspaper in the Bible Belt. Grandpa was atheist. Grandma more agnostic. They figured that they wouldn't be able to sell newspapers in the Bible Belt unless they joined a church.
So they picked a church to join to sell newspapers. They rarely attended though. They always used the excuse that their Sunday paper was the biggest seller, so they were up all night Saturday to Sunday printing and distributing, thus couldn't make it to church.
As for me, I don't have to lie. I expect most of my clients to kneel before me anyway.
whirlingmerc
Well-Known Member
My experience is that most Christians will do business with someone with a good quality product regardless what they believe. Honesty and integrity is a factor and is part of the product so that remains a consideration.
Marsh
Active Member
Yes, I can see that. However, I did work in retail many years and became friends with a small number of my customers, but even in those cases religion never came up (our connection was a common interest in astronomy). All the same, I can see the topic of religion rising in some situations. It just never did with me.
Beenthere Donethat
New Member
I don't see the issue. Christians buy services and products from atheists all the time. We don't really care as long as the business is fair, honest, and competent.
Beenthere Donethat
New Member
No. Greed is good- but should I tell them that? When you are at the top of the food chain do you really want to let them in on trade secrets like evolution and survival of the fittest? That sounds like it might encourage competition. They can pay more for my products out of a mis-guided sense of charity and generosity as christian "virtue".
They can keep their souls. I'm only interested in their money.
Most atheist businessmen are not like you, if you are even one. Most nonbeliever business owners want to put out a good product or service and are fair and honest. And Christians don't really care if a business owner is Christian or not as long as they are fair, honest, and competent. Whether they are saved or not is really not my business most of the time.
You don't sound like a nonbeliever, you sound more like a Satanist or something with your "Greed is Good" lament and your desire only for money rather than providing a good service or product.
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I am an atheist but not a businessmen. My reply was slightly tongue in cheek as I'm a communist so the whole "capitalism" idea doesn't appeal. but yeah I do have an interest in the left hand path/satanists as well as ayn rands objectivism (a greed is good philisophy) because they are materialist like Marxism.
IndigoStorm
Member
Well if you got it then flaunt it!
IndigoStorm
Member
Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
Alright. . . .
Shlomoh
Member
Actually many believers are not open to viewing nonbelievers' point of view. They are not open to religious or philosophical diversity so it may be best not to discuss your unbelief with them. If they start asking too many probing questions, tell them that belief is one of the topics you keep to yourself and you appreciate their respect for your privacy
What fun is that?
Shlomoh
Member
Cephus
Relentlessly Rational
I won't bring religion up usually, but if the other side does, I am going to be open and honest, whether they like it or not. If they don't want to hear my views, they shouldn't ask about my views.
Shlomoh
Member
Lol my Yarmulke tends to give it away
I have a suggestion. Take off your yarmulke and place a bobby pin on a wig you can buy cheap. Next put a long piece of tape on it that connects to your tsitist so that the wig doesn't fly away. BTW, I am getting a yellow iron on bade that has a half moon and says MUSLIM on it If they ask me do I belive in Gad I'll just point to the badge I said Gad because I am not a member of the hypen-nation
Shlomoh
Member
I am having a cake made. It's in the form of an erect penis and it says ***** GRABER on it. I never let people know I am hetero sexual
Shlomoh
Member
Since I wash my hand after I use the restroom, this dilemma has never come up for me. Is it a problem for you often?