• Sixty@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    Can all the nations they stole artifacts and trinkets from get them back when they declare bankruptcy? /s

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    Except they have billions in stolen art and could liquidate it at any point. If not trillions, actually.

    Nobody knows exactly what Vatican has but Porphyry Basin in the Vatican Museum is estimated to be worth 2$ billion alone (it was commissioned by Emperor Nero).

    Vatican could literally end the world hunger with their treasure hoard.

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      52 minutes ago

      Vatican could literally end the world hunger with their treasure hoard.

      No they couldn’t. They’d end up making a bunch of warlords into billionaires while the regular people would go on starving. The only way to end world hunger is grassroots economic development and education (especially for women). You can’t do that by dumping billions of dollars into those countries. The problem is very tricky and the work is long and arduous.

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    I am an agnostic so my opinion might not be worth anything to Christians (or Catholics specifically), but I don’t really see the point in organized church structures. If you believe in God, support his ideals, why do you need to go to church anyway, or at least why would you want your local church support some big hierarchy (often with controversial opinions or actions) for your money?

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      It’s been a long while since I was involved in a church, but my recollection of the Bible isn’t able to reference anything that implies there is a need for the hierarchy associated with the Catholic Church, or similar. It kind of says you can have a personal relationship with God, and I don’t recall anything about Mary being special in any way aside from giving birth to the so called Messiah.

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      Same reason people go to comicons or music concerts or protests. People just want to be with others who believe in and like the same things as they do. It’s a pretty simple and basic human behavior.