Comments on: Foul-mouthed comic: Sell the Vatican

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:31:15 +0000

No, perplexed, I imagine it would take more than a billion dollars, but we’ve paid out far more than that in stimulus, bailouts, and other payments. I’d say you could buy it for far less than the $173 billion we gave AIG, but then if we’d bought the Vatican instead, all those insurance executives in Connecticut wouldn’t have gotten their bonuses. Or, we could have bought the Vatican instead of putting the $200 billion we put into bad bank assets, but there again, who’d have paid the bonuses to all those bankers?

The Vatican as an investment is looking better and better!

By: perplexed

perplexed — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:21:05 +0000

I would be hard pressed to beleive that a billion dollars would purchase the Vatican, the history alone would be worth that much. In its archives, it would be interesting to study what isn’t public knowledge, it would be interesting to know how knowledge was spread across the globe and what factors regulated what knowledge would be given as history. The story of the world and the true origins of the Bible could be in those archives. If there was only more time.

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:50:12 +0000

Here’s the scary thing, perplexed: For what we paid to bail out big banks and auto manufacturers, the US government could have bought the Vatican, made a deal with Disney (which apparently didn’t need a bailout), moved it in toto to Orlando, and charged people admission to see it.

Here’s the second scary thing: Disney World is probably worth more than the Vatican, because it has better cash flow.

I can see it right now, though: Street vendors selling Pope-sickles, little Pope hats for the kids, maybe some do your own mass kits, a Pope-mobile roller coaster . . . This could be fun!

By: perplexed

perplexed — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:19:13 +0000

The big question is , who would buy it? The Arabs?

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:44:49 +0000

The Catholic League came into its own during the priest abuse scandal, trying to show that anyone who criticized the church was a heretic. I’d be honored to be blasted by them, too — wait, I think I was once . . .

By: Caleb Powers

Caleb Powers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:42:59 +0000

If you’re going to discount your most valuable assets down to a dollar, it’s easy to plead poverty. If they’d valued it at a billion or more dollars, they’d have been closer to the true value.

Sarah has a point: Why does an organization that constantly asks other people to give money to it, ostensibly to help poor people, need a billion dollars worth of artwork and architecture? I realize that we Anglicans have our treasures as well, but then we’re not claiming to be poor, either, nor have we valued the national cathedral at a dollar.

By: Sophia Katt

Sophia Katt — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:22:18 +0000

Wow, the Catholic League, huh? Kathy Griffin was condemned by the Catholic League for her “suck it Jesus, this Emmy is now my God” thank you speech, so she looked into the CL and discovered that it is “one old guy on a computer”; I think she meant Bill Donohoe, who pulls down $340K plus for his job. A friend of mine who has met Mr. Donohoe told me that it was, in his opinion, an honor to be blasted by the guy.