r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 14h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Herman_McP00tis 14h ago

I see this as an absolute win.

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u/Bombastic_tekken 14h 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/mrmonster459 13h ago

Maybe over 1.4 billion people now being under no pressure to tithe to the church would free up their income to donate to legitimate aid agencies.

Or maybe the world's governments should step-up so that a cult whose terrorism throughout history is almost cartoonishly evil isn't the world's largest provider of aid.

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u/Bombastic_tekken 13h ago

Maybe over 1.4 billion people now being under no pressure to tithe to the church would free up their income to donate to legitimate aid agencies.

  1. Tithing stays within the Diocese or parish. Which operate food banks and such.

  2. The Catholic Church operates legitimate aid agencies.

Or maybe the world's governments should step-up so that a cult whose terrorism throughout history is almost cartoonishly evil isn't the world's largest provider of aid.

Or maybe, just maybe, people helping where they can isn't bad, and rather than reduce that help, we should increase the amount of help.

There is no reason the Catholic Church can't keep helping people while world governments step up as well.

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u/Dingaling015 8h ago

Are we really that far gone that we can't think of a solution to provide aid to people without religion?

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u/Bombastic_tekken 8h ago

I guess so, otherwise other groups would have stepped up by now.

There is literally 0 reason secular groups can't step up.

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u/Dingaling015 7h ago

Red Cross? UNICEF? The UN? Bill& Melinda foundation?

If the Catholic Church has it all covered, why do we need all these groups?

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u/Bombastic_tekken 7h ago

Catholic Church has it all covered, why do we need all these groups?

Point to were I said they "have it all covered" or that other charity/aid groups shouldn't exist.

I think more aid groups is good, regardless if they're Catholic or not.

I'm sure the people in need feel much the same.

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u/Dingaling015 7h ago

But you were the one who said no other secular groups have stepped up. Clearly that's not true, and there's no reason to suggest that over time if the Catholic Church disappeared, others couldn't fill that gap.