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This is a great idea. If I were rich, I'd leave my fortune to the three biggest religious leaders in my city (I am an atheist). The condition is that every decision to spend that money would have to be unanimous and public.

Now, that would be hilarious to watch!

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That's not 'atheist' - that's 'deeply cynical' and obviously completely misunderstanding religion.

For example, Catholic, Protestant an Jewish leadership of any city, given those terms, would have little problem finding a project to spend that money on. Either one of numerous charities or here [1] to start.

I think the title of the article, is not informative either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_Center_of_New_York

Let's try not to downvote true statements we don't like

They divide the money in 3 piles and agree that they can spend their pile as they want.

Not sure why that would be hilarious?

"every decision to spend that money" sounds pretty specific to me. The decision to split the pile isn't sufficient to escape that requirement.

They can still just split and launder the money, the mechanics are not interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_Quo_(Jerusalem_and_Beth...

I think there's a lot of intersection, even among religions. (Feeding the poor, for example. Or helping widows and orphans.)

I imagine the 3 would quickly reach agreement, but they'd also agree to keep your views (atheist) out of the announcements. Can't advertise good deeds of that nature, of course!

Thats just cruel lol

It's a gift, one can always reject it.

What? I'm confused

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