The Chick-Fil-A Effects Of Religion

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All of my life I have seen the effects of religion through the world. Growing up in a Christian home and school, it was a foundation for my life. It creates morals, ideals, and goals on how to grow as a human being. There may be dozens of different religions and belief systems, but all come down to making you a better person, bringing others together in harmony, and creating a better world to live in. Now that sounds familiar, right? Globalization is the plan to bring everyone of the world together through a more economic standpoint instead of through ideals. Many of the early economies and countries were all based around religion. There was very little separation of church and state, as that is a fairly new concept. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe began moving towards Christianity. Many of the Christian clergy were actually given political authority as well as their religious authority. In modern times that would not be as easily accepted, but before when most of the population was religious, …show more content…
It is an incredibly successful business, albeit they have not gone international yet, but as a privately owned franchise company, their success rate is almost unheard of. Every single restaurant is closed on Sundays to observe Christian religious practices, like attending church. The founder of Chick-Fil-A, Dan Cathy, pushes for every franchise owner to be a married Christian who regularly attends church, although that is not always the case. The company receives roughly 20,000 applications for franchises a year but only accepts less than 100. It is an incredibly rigid, as well as bizarre, structure, but they continue to find themselves on the top of the fast food leaderboards. Each store averages around $3.2 million in sales annualy, while second place McDonalds only boasts a $2.6 million in sales, even though there is nearly eight times the amount of McDonalds stores across

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