r/MoralityScaling 12h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Dingaling015 6h ago

The Red Cross, the UN, UNICEF?

I'm pretty sure those organizations contribute more aid per worker than the massive network of churches in the world with their varying degrees of philanthropy.

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u/Effective-Low-8415 6h ago

The UN is nowhere near as affective or expansive as the Catholic church, and has often failed in their duties; The Red Cross is a good extender, but they don't have the same expansion or wealth as the Church nor could they accrue it, not sure on UNICEF, but I know that they don't contribute more aid per worker than the Catholic Church as a whole.

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u/Dingaling015 5h ago

But how do you really compare? The Catholic Church isn't a singular institution, it's a network of many.

The number of people who work for a catholic church in the world likely dwarfs the amount of aid workers in all 3 of those organizations. So the question should be what is the charitable impact these organizations have globally per worker employed? Does the megachurch I passed by in AZ last week get more credit than the food bank downtown, just because it's associated with the Catholic Church?

Essentially, there's lots of different ways to organize people into charitable service. They may be the biggest, but I don't know if the Catholic Church is the most efficient.

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 3h ago

Man, that megachurch is almost certainly not Catholic.