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Pope urges 'disarming' of AI in major manifesto (www.dw.com)
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[–] 1 point 5 months ago* (13 children)

Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres), perhaps the Pope can grace us all by paying property taxes from this point onward? The church's unimaginable wealth should be able to cover it... everybody else manages it somehow.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands

    Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government.

    The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States...

    I'd also guess that the Russian and Canadian governments are up there.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And the farthest west you go, the more the federal government owns lands. In some states like Nevada, the state only owns a small portion of their state land.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    This caused a lot of problems when the state courts tried to protect Native American lands being leveled by the Trump admin because of his bullshit wall but the federal government just outright ignored them.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    That's not anybody! I will be more specific, the Catholic church owns more land than any other private organization on Earth, but yes governments own more, and can seize land from the Catholics, too. It's happened before.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Fun, semi-related fact: the Mormons own approximately 2% of Florida.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Yes, they had a late start, Catholic church has been around for over a thousand years, Mormons need to catch up.

    Still, they are doing rather well with around 2 million (sources vary) acres, the fifth largest landowner in USA. That's very impressive, not paying taxes helps them a great deal financially.

    Ask L. Ron Hubbard

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Are enough people going to church nowadays to warrant the big cash flows, as in the past? Went home to a family reunion last year and my aunt/uncles 8 children were raised catholic and went to church every Sunday. Discovered none of the kids, or their kids, go to church anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    They're losing membership, but they have been unimaginably wealthy since the Middle Ages, they'll be fine. Not paying taxes helps, of course.

    (that's just for the USA, they could be gaining membership elsewhere)

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    what? the vatican is larger than the US? aahahahahahahahahaha

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Did you know the Catholic church is much larger than the Vatican? IT'S TRUE

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/07/24/vatican-owns-over-5000-properties-worldwide-it-reveals-in-first-disclosures-on-its-real-estate-holdings/

    ha hahaha hahaha hahahaha haaahaahahahahahaha

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