The economic decoding of religious dogmas : ranking world religions in terms of economic consistency This book proves that each religious dogma in any of their components contain in an encoded manner a specific ranking of human comprehensive mega objectives implicitly a specific preference for absolute wealth or in a more common parlance for the objective of economic performance. In turn that specific preference under ceteris paribus condition determines the share of believers general resources which is channeled to economic performance. An in depth or correct understanding of a religious dogma which makes sense for terrestrial social realities is impossible without a specific model of decoding. Additionally such a model is simply impossible within an orthodox Western that is non transcultural perspective. There is no accident that all Western efforts to decode religions economic or non economic have failed. Understanding religion based on its face story is very precarious if not even dangerous.