(October 25, 2016 at 6:50 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:(October 25, 2016 at 6:43 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Considering there over a billion people worldwide that base their lives on what the Vatican says, I certainly give a shit what's coming out of their mouths.
I genuinely had no idea the number was that high...
That's scary.
Only 30% of those live in civilised first world countries, and of those most of them don't give that much of a fuck about what the Vatican says, I bet, and would renounce it as soon as it tried to take advantage of its provisory influence over them for its own political goals. This is only MO, it's hard to tell what numbers so large mean, even with citizens with so little political worth in the world as those of the larger portion of that billion. So sure, I can see why it sounds scary to you, but I'm not much worried about the Vatican myself.