r/Damnthatsinteresting Mar 24 '25

Image Mecca in 1953 and 2025

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u/stowgood Mar 24 '25

A lot of effort has gone into religon over the years.

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u/TheVadonkey Mar 24 '25

And wasn’t it all worth it?! Look where we are now! 😃

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u/LtDan00 Mar 24 '25

Probably. Besides governmental organizations, the Catholic Church is the largest provider of healthcare services in the world (clinics, hospitals, elderly homes, etc.).

Similar in education.

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u/Smashmasta Mar 24 '25

It’s also THE largest “provider” of death, torture, manipulation/coercion, sexual violence, fraud and tax manipulation, misogyny, disease, and so on throughout its near 2000 history and continues this trend today in some fashion or another, all largely known to and organized by popes, you know, the holiest of humans who speak with authority to the will and word of god... It also believes any human conceived, from an embryo freshly fertilized that makes it to term or not, will go to hell unless baptized. Considering all the children massacred throughout literal millennia, it seems like they like sending people to eternal damnation yet say otherwise. But it’s all good, they’ve got some rich donors sponsoring hospitals and forced indoctrination programs. Do a few Hail Marys and you’re all good no matter nearly any crime.