Den writes:
I wish the other satire I wrote wasnt locked, because I was wondering what would happen if all the churches closed overnight and the world became universally Atheist/evolution believers, obviously this would destroy the churches ability to do their immense scope of charitable work?
You might get a clue to this if you research and examine the varying levels of religious belief in different countries around the world. The least religious ones, you'll discover, are net givers of international aid, and the very religious ones tend to be net receivers. In other words, the more secular section of the world seems to be subsidising high religiosity in what used to be called the "third world."
There's a tendency amongst religious people to believe that whatever religion they believe in would benefit the world if belief in it was universal, but there's certainly evidence against this.
Do you really think that a country like Sweden would benefit from returning to the high levels of supernaturalism that you can see in Bangladesh, the Philippines, or Nigeria?
As for the soup kitchens, examine what the Swedes do in socio-economic policy and how effective it is, and there's your clue. Perhaps the soup kitchens are there to patch up the inadequacies of the economic policies that conservative Christians seem to be so keen on.
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