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>You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
Still very true. If you want to hit it big, create a religion. See Tesla or Scientology for examples.
But that actually doesn't match with the paradigms of some of the most prominent world religions, which despite being surrounded (in some sects more than others) by the trappings of object-worship, self-identify as explicitly about belief/faith. Scientology does essentially sell a very-specific type of counselling insofar as it is transactional. Many "prosperity" churches, and the Roman Catholic church in the middle ages (and some would argue to a lesser extent today), sell promises of security/eternity. But the majority of monotheistic faith and practice isn't about creating objects of worship/adoration and an ideology that binds them together. Fundamentalism is a symptom of transactional faith, just as entrepreneurship (great or mediocre) engenders faith in a product, and the transactional opportunity to acquire it. Religion that isn't fundamentalist attenuates the acquisition of the object of worship.
