{"id":13445,"date":"2015-12-21T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13445"},"modified":"2015-12-21T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T13:55:02","slug":"the-economics-of-zuism-a-sumerian-religion-that-is-taking-over-iceland-through-tax-rebates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-zuism-a-sumerian-religion-that-is-taking-over-iceland-through-tax-rebates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Zuism, A Sumerian Religion That Is Taking Over Iceland Through Tax Rebates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/122115_0226_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harriet Sherwood wrote about a religion that is quickly winning converts in Iceland:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Iceland registered religious bodies receive &#8220;parish fees&#8221; \u2013 paid through taxes levied by the government amounting to the equivalent of $80 per taxpayer per year.<\/li>\n<li>Zuism promises to refund taxpayers the money they receive from the government.<\/li>\n<li>The religion is being taken up by citizens opposed to state funding of religious bodies.<\/li>\n<li>Over 1% of Iceland&#8217;s population \u2013 3,100 people \u2013 converted over a two week period.<\/li>\n<li>Attempts to disqualify Zusm from state funding have faltered because of problems with identifying which religions are legitimate and which aren&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Zuism itself is a real ancient religion that worships Sumerian Gods.<\/li>\n<li>Weirdly some of the converts have taken an interest in the religion itself. Ancient Sumerian services and poetry events have been surprisingly popular.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the belief, Iceland&#8217;s religion funding system, and other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/dec\/08\/new-icelandic-religion-sumerian-gods-tax-rebates-zuism\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/dec\/08\/new-icelandic-religion-sumerian-gods-tax-rebates-zuism\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet Sherwood wrote about a religion that is quickly winning converts in Iceland: In Iceland registered religious bodies receive &#8220;parish fees&#8221; \u2013 paid through taxes levied by the government amounting to the equivalent of $80 per taxpayer per year. Zuism promises to refund taxpayers the money they receive from the government. The religion is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/122115_0226_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13457,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445\/revisions\/13457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}