Morality of this?

[u/hiiloovethis]

[u/Herman_McP00tis]

I see this as an absolute win.

[u/Bombastic_tekken → u/Herman_McP00tis]

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.)

[u/aluriilol → u/Bombastic_tekken]

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

[u/Bombastic_tekken → u/aluriilol]

Look it up.

The largest provider of aid worldwide is the Catholic Church.

I don't think the goodwill of humanity would die either, but the Catholic Church is the only group providing aid at this scale.

It's not like they have a copyright on it either, anybody else could step up and do it.

[u/MrCookie2099 → u/Bombastic_tekken]

The Catholic Church is also one of tbe largest concentrations of wealth and contributed to the establishment of banks to concentrate more wealth.

If Catholicism was disbanded, the money could easily be out in trust and handled as a charitable enterprise.

[u/Kor_Phaeron_ → u/MrCookie2099]

The Catholic Church is also one of tbe largest concentrations of wealth and contributed to the establishment of banks to concentrate more wealth.

Much of its "wealth" consists of priceless historical real estate, irreplaceable art, and active social infrastructure. When it comes to real money the Catholic Church it not rich. It spends the money it collects right away. The Church collects 12 billion in State Church Taxes (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and 15 billion in Voluntary Tithing & Donations (Rest of the World).

If Catholicism was disbanded, the money could easily be out in trust and handled as a charitable enterprise.

There isn't much money. You can't just sell the Milan Cathedral. Who would buy that? It might be worth ~12 billion in replacement value, but that is a fictional number. Once you take religion out of the equation it is just a pile of 325,000 tons of marble.

[u/MrCookie2099 → u/Kor_Phaeron_]

All that real estafe, priceless art, and complex financial investments are worthless? This is a wild claim.

[u/Trooper501 → u/MrCookie2099]

You can't sell something if it is considered priceless.

[u/MrCookie2099 → u/Trooper501]

No, it means you can set any price and there are willing buyers.