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by hinkley 652 days ago
You’re the one who picked the only church that has its own country. Don’t shoot the messenger.
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so does disney. it's irrelevant. neither of them have any real citizens other than employees of the institution.

a church is a completely different institution to a country. countries are not decentralised. they do not advertise. they are (usually) not selling an idea. you cannot just decide to become a member of a country. the catholic church is all of those things and so are businesses. the catholic church is essentially a very entrenched business with a weak facade of being a state.

maybe in terms of scale they're similar to a state, but then how many people do the biggest businesses have as customers? billions?