NewDominion Bank .. tell me this doesn't freak you out

[yodermon]

Front page of the Charlotte Observer on Tuesday morning (1/11), where I spewed my coffee when I read:

Opening day begins with a prayer, plans

RICK ROTHACKER

Staff Writer

Just after 9 a.m. Monday, NewDominion Bank Chief Executive Bradley Thompson invited employees and visitors to gather in a circle in the lobby.

Less than a year after Thompson and partner Benjie Guion quit jobs at SouthTrust Corp. to start the new Charlotte bank, after tapping 500 investors for millions of dollars in capital, and after completing a checklist of hundreds of tasks, they were ready to open.

Dressed in a dark suit and bow tie, Thompson thanked everyone for their work. He then asked John Austin, regional director of a Christian youth group program called Young Life, to say a prayer.

"Lord, we dedicate this bank to you," said Austin, who knows Guion from Young Life. "We pray for the employees and Benjie and Bradley."

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/10615114.htm?1c
This is 3rd in a 3 part series.

Are they really able to be this blatant now?

For the uninitiated,
See http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Dominionists or
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm or
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheSwiftAdvanceOfaPlannedCoup.htm
or just google "dominionism" like this

[neverforget]

1. Who are they praying too: God or Mammon?

[htuttle]

2. Given that they are praying over cash?

I'd have to say Mammon.

[izzie]

3. I once was in this----

A business that prayed to JC that we made money. One of my Friends told me not to laugh as the people were really into all this. By the way they were the worse crooks I ever saw. We ended up with lawyers to get out of the mess they made for us.That is one bank I will not go to.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

4. It means

that if you have money there, take it out. The more overtly pious the business, the more likely, IMHO, it's picking your pocket-it's OK cause they've been saved, so loot away!

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Jesus never used banks, that I know of any way.

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Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/

[blm]

6. It was front page 3 days in a row. I called the paper and asked if they

were aware of what Dominionism had at its goal? They had no clue. I told them that they seek for complete fundamentalist Christian control over society, much like The Handmaid's Tale. This bank was just an opening move.

I also informed them that a Dominionist named Ahmanson was a chief owner of E S & S electronic voting machines, and also sponsored a bill in Ohio that called for creationism to ba taught in the public schools.

Newspaper people are usually the LAST to know even the most important details of a story.

Call them and tell them what you think.

[MrMonk]

7. Do they plan to run the bank on "biblical principles"?

I wonder whether the bible complies with the banking laws.

[Sparkly]

11. Faith-based interest rates?

:shrug:

[w4rma]

8. The folks most easy to con are fundie types and they eat this stuff up.

This big proud show of prayer is how the CEO plans to draw suckers into their buisness. I will never touch that buisness with a 10 foot pole and I will tell others to do the same if the topic comes up.

[Speck Tater]

9. Thre great thing about democracy ...

...is that not only are idiots like that free to open a religiously based bank if that's what they want, but that people like me are free to NOT ever set foot in their silly institution.

I have no problem at all with that because it's not state supported or sponsered by the government.

[KamaAina]

10. Yikes! How long until they buy out B of A?

B of A is itself in Charlotte because then-NationsBank pulled off a buyout of SF-based B of A (and kept the name).

One of these fine days we may well read a notice in the financial pages that this NewDominion Bank has executed an LBO of B of A (or Wachovia) and will become the nation's third- or so largest bank. :scared:

[PA Democrat]

12. Found an email in my spam folder today from

ChristianFamilyLoans.com. It said, "Refinance your home the Christian way!"

Wonder if they ever foreclose on people's homes?