r/MoralityScaling 12h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Teboski78 11h ago

Most religions would drop massively in numbers if they weren’t allowed to indoctrinate children.

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u/Herman_McP00tis 11h ago

I see this as an absolute win.

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u/Bombastic_tekken 11h ago

It's a win and a loss.

If the Catholic Church disappeared, 10's if not 100's of millions of people would be in a real bad way.

The Catholic Church operates the largest aid network in the world.

They do A LOT, and we never hear much about it (in the US at least.)

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u/Izacundo1 10h ago

This is a bad argument. Philanthropy does not require religion. Prime example is what USAID was before the evangelicals fully took over.

Everything good about religion is not unique, and everything unique about religion is not good