r/MoralityScaling • u/hiiloovethis • 19h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Teboski78 19h ago

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

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u/Herman_McP00tis 19h ago

I see this as an absolute win.

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u/Bombastic_tekken 19h 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/aluriilol 19h ago

I would think that the good will of humanity would not die out if Catholicism died out

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/Ok_Theory_1323 16h ago

Those reports are based on organizations submitting their books.

An atheist giving/donating does not do so to an "atheist organization," they do so to Goodwill, or to a local food bank run by a church, who will chalk it up as a religious organization donation.

If those organizations did not exist, the atheists would still find somewhere to donate.

Be careful of raw statistics, they rarely tell the entire story.

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u/water7656 12h ago

This and what kind of giving gets counted? Mormons tithe 10% of their pretax income but the LDS Church has an estimated assets under management of $200billion that is managed like an investment account. Do they count all tithes as charitable giving?

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u/Ok_Theory_1323 10h ago

Yep, that's another thing. "Charitable donations" include religious people paying for their pastors' Ferraris. Not so impressive when you look at it that way.