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Atheist Making A Fortune From Selling Bibles Says The Money Is Too Good To Be True
inquisitr.com ^ | March 13, 2015 | inquisitr.com

Posted on 03/14/2015 10:44:38 PM PDT by Dallas59

Who says you can’t make money off religion, even if you aren’t a believer yourself? After all, isn’t that what some of the most famous Evangelical Christians do?

You might think that an atheist selling Bibles is a contradiction in terms, and definitely an oxymoron, and you might be right. However, that hasn’t stopped Trevor McKendrick from making $100,000 a year selling the “Word of God.”

The whole Bible-selling thing all started for Trevor back in February 2012 when he was out for dinner with his family and learned that a relative of his was making $8,000 to $10,000 a month just by selling iPhone apps.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: atheist; bible; bibleapp

1 posted on 03/14/2015 10:44:38 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

$100,000 a year is a fortune? In what, Bangladesh?


2 posted on 03/14/2015 10:46:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Dallas59

There’s no such thing as an atheist in a...


3 posted on 03/14/2015 11:01:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For an hour’s a day of work?

That’s not bad.


4 posted on 03/14/2015 11:05:00 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

I need to get together with a techie. I have ALL KINDS of ideas but no way to implement them.


5 posted on 03/14/2015 11:09:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Dallas59

Shades of Big Dan Teague.


6 posted on 03/14/2015 11:09:51 PM PDT by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Dallas59

He might just build up the Christian faith. Maybe at some time he will reflect on his new found wealth and consider thanks are in order.

Everybody pray for this guy!!!;)


7 posted on 03/15/2015 12:30:42 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Way back when in college a professor was telling us engineers that. You are the ones coming up with the ideas. Get some kid to figure out the code for you.

My first boss out of college had that attitude. Had some punk kid in junior high come in and work on making programs for our brand new Tandy’s.

The kid was learning how to fly and figured out the small airports had issues with scheduling, etc. He developed some software for them that included all sorts of stuff with regard to scheduling flights, training, billing, fuel, maintence, etc. (Those he came up with on his own).

I wonder if my old boss remembers his name? He was working on hooking up electrodes to his head to get the computer to respond to his thoughts. This was 30 years ago - I thought he was a bit nuts. A genius - but nuts too.


8 posted on 03/15/2015 12:40:17 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Dallas59

this doesn’t make sense, because there are quite a few bible apps available for free.


9 posted on 03/15/2015 2:02:48 AM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor peoplerich to help.)
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To: Dallas59

God does work in mysterious ways...


10 posted on 03/15/2015 5:24:11 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: LadyDoc
From the article:

“He then found some SPANISH (emphasis added) Bible apps that were not good quality. After hiring a Romanian programmer to build a better app for him, he began selling the new product.

He added to the app by including an audio version which took off, generating a cool $5,000 to $6,000 per month.”

Sort of a “build a better mouse trap” sales phenomena, I suppose.

11 posted on 03/15/2015 5:36:34 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow)
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To: 21twelve

#8 Was it Bill Jobs? Steve Gates? : )


12 posted on 03/15/2015 5:56:32 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Captain Rhino

I bet that Romanian programmer is ticked off!


13 posted on 03/15/2015 5:57:09 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Dallas59; 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like a variant of the ‘prosperity gospel’ Creflo $$


14 posted on 03/15/2015 11:48:14 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Dallas59
God writes straight with crooked lines. He's doing the Lord's work regardless of his beliefs.
15 posted on 03/15/2015 2:19:14 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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