RE: Religion doesn't need evidence
October 23, 2016 at 12:05 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2016 at 12:06 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Let us suppose that, after operating costs (salaries, admin, idiotic hats), the Catholic Church could free up $10 billion to help poor people - not an unreasonable figure, I think.
UN statistics indicate that roughly a quarter of a billion people in Africa are 'hungry', defined as either undernourished, malnourished, or in danger of death from starvation. The UN further estimates that ONE dollar per person per month would virtually ensure that these people would stop going to be hungry (not all of the aid would be in the form of direct food assistance - a large part would go to help create subsistence farms at a local level). So, $250 million per month.
I'm no maths whiz, but I'm fairly sure that I've just shown that the Church could - if it wished - end hunger in Africa for 40 months, after which the level of aid needed would drop like a paralyzed falcon.
I guess starving people make better parishioners.
Boru
UN statistics indicate that roughly a quarter of a billion people in Africa are 'hungry', defined as either undernourished, malnourished, or in danger of death from starvation. The UN further estimates that ONE dollar per person per month would virtually ensure that these people would stop going to be hungry (not all of the aid would be in the form of direct food assistance - a large part would go to help create subsistence farms at a local level). So, $250 million per month.
I'm no maths whiz, but I'm fairly sure that I've just shown that the Church could - if it wished - end hunger in Africa for 40 months, after which the level of aid needed would drop like a paralyzed falcon.
I guess starving people make better parishioners.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
