(November 19, 2013 at 6:21 am)Captain Colostomy Wrote: If you felt obliged to temper the vitriol against the RCC, you failed with that GDP reference. You dislike them, see the slap to the face they meted out for what it is.Because you're an idiot. If they have so much money, how come they don't spend it on completely cataloguing the Vatican Secret Archives? Or how about spend it on digitizing the 10's of millions of pages of ancient Christian texts?
The RCC has a huge amount of revenue, that's true, but that's because it's such a huge organization, and just like any other company (and that includes NPO's/churches) the funds have to be accountable, not only that, but there's always a treasury department in some capacity that is separate to the other departments (eg priests and bishops). So priests, bishops and individual churches all have to apply to get funds held by their diocese, and that in turn - as I said - is controlled by ordinary Catholics that would have been voted into holding positions within treasury administration to give them power to administer funds; so you're completely wrong from the onset - the Pope cannot "decide" that he wants to spend $15,000,000 - in order to do that he would literally have to rob individual churches, who (as I've already explained) have control of their own money. Or worse still, yank the money from the billions the RCC spends on other charitable causes "oh well the homeless people in Australia can do without so that we can donate to Philippines".
Go and learn something before you criticise.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
