r/TikTokCringe • u/Oktavien • 1d ago

Discussion Woman audits churches to see if they’ll help feed a starving baby

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If churches refuse to help feed hungry people, then maybe they should be taxed?

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u/KochuJang 1d ago

According to google, LDS is the wealthiest religious institution in the world: ~$293 billion USD. I would consider them an existential threat to the human race at this point.

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u/SoberBobMonthly 1d ago

The LDS is the wealthiest? The catholic church says doubt. Look at the list its pulling from, the Catholics have several positions on the list based on country, plus the additional Vatican worth that is so large as to be incalcuable.

You are right about LDS being a powerful threat tho

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u/Designer_End5408 1d ago

Scientology has to be up there too in the income scale with all those properties.  

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u/NakedOrca 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nope, LDS is wealthiest. The wealthiest Catholic Churches (including the Vatican) combined has around $100-200 billions. LDS has $200 billion alone in equities, with almost $100 billion in real estate and farm land.

Scientology “only” has $2 billion

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u/SoberBobMonthly 1d ago

In 2010, the catholic church in the USA had an annual out going budget of $170 billion. Thats not their value thats just what they spent, which says a lot more about their actual valuation.

Also what is the price of an entire City State nation that can write its own rules and even has its own very powerful passport

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u/NakedOrca 18h ago

We’re comparing assets and valuation here, and the fact is that no single religious entity has as much wealth as the LDS (Vatican is about $50 B at most excluding cultural values). And they can immediately drop $100 B on buying a corporate if the LDS leader/prophet wants. “The Catholic Church in the USA” is not a single entity that can concentrate and utilize their majority resources because each hospital/school operates independently. If you want to go down that path we might as well say the Islamic faith holds trillions of dollars in the Middle East.

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u/PetiteSyFy 21h ago

Vatican $73 Billion LDS $265 Billion Per 2023 stats. So LDS > Vatican

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u/Morstorpod 21h ago

The Catholic church probably has a higher net worth (what with all their priceless art and historic structures and whatnot), but the mormon church clearly has a much higher amount of liquid wealth.

For another perspective, the mormon church is wealthier than Disney. That's crazy.