As will money spent on Notre Dame restoration. As would money spent repairing windows deliberately broken. What’s your point?
Well, in a way, it’s billionaire money that would have been stashed away in Switzerland that will go towards paying a thousand kids we’re gonna train in stonemasonry in a hurry. So it’s kinda sorta like if they’d paid their taxes and those taxes had gone towards the safety net.
Now all we need to do is keep on destroying symbols the mega rich care about appearing like they care about !
…which reminds me that the Big Dig cost over $24 billion, while achieving somewhat less cultural value than the Notre Dame cathedral.
I guess you missed (or didn’t bother to read) the part where the Roman Catholic Church does NOT own the cathedral; it is property of the French government. But don’t let a little thing like a fact stop you from spewing your obvious anti-religious opinions.
To be fair, the Government of France is pretty wealthy.
And, by the way, about that claim that the Catholic Church is “one of the wealthiest organizations on the planet”. How is that figured? In one of these threads someone threw out the figure of $37 billion. Is that supposed to be just financial assets or does it include the value of all of the real estate and artwork and so forth in the Vatican and other church properties? Because if it’s the latter, it’s really meaningless. It’s not as if you could sell Michelangelo’s Pieta from St Peter’s Basilica.
I’ll give 'em 45 bux and a 1/2 pack of Pall Malls, and even throw in $20 more if one of those wierdos in the red bathrobes and the big, stupid hats will deliver it to me.