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A Brisk Business in Selling Hope by the Wick – New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/business/22candle.html People-watching in Paris’ many churches, you quickly notice how many coin-based thunks and clinks emanate from the votive donation box. A quick calculation of the varying sized (and priced) candles burning reveals that there’s generally about 200 Euros burning uselessly at any given time. The atheist entrepreneur’s dilemma: Promoting religion and magical thinking in […]

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