Had a brief chat with my colleagues about some non-work-related and totally irrelevant stuff about robot vacuum cleaners and rich people living in big houses.
My thoughts wandered thereafter, and one thing lead to another. Which got me wondering: can one get rich and successful in life without a religion?
Do you subscribe to a religion? Regardless of it being orthodox or not, it seems that the people in the news will have a religion of some sort for most parts. I'm pretty sure that this does not apply entirely to the Hollywood circle as that's a different circus act, even if Scientology has shoved its ass into the picture. Maybe I'll set my assumption for this post to be restricted to just Asia/Singapore.
Might there be a chicken and egg issue? Perhaps faith helped in establishing said power, or did the networking with people from the related congregations gave those people an advantage? Or did they needed something to believe in only after they've established themselves?
Can you name one CEO or similar post of a company in Singapore that you know of who is without a religion?
I'm not looking for a religion, but neither am I being an atheist. My curiousity falls on the link between power and faith.
I'm comfortable with being agnostic thus far, so I'm not expecting any "join my religion" or "how dare you" rebuttals, thank you very much.
PS: Corny as it may sound, I don't think "money" is regarded as a religion... right? And don't get me started on "sleeping" (shui jiao) either. >_<"
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