30 Aug
2024
30 Aug
'24
1:33 a.m.
And then there's the story in the bible about Jesus throwing the people
selling indulgences (and other things) out of the temple?😮
That kind of thing has been going on for thousands of years. It
predates Catholicism but became a part of the Catholic Church in the
11th and 12 centuries.
This is not intended to start a theological discussion in any way shape
or form. I was just mentioning that buying your salvation has been a
part of mankind for a long time.
On 8/29/2024 7:01 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug
2024, Paul Koning wrote:
Hasn't he
promised to give his money away...
Yes
He is a follower of Carnegie. Ruthlessly make an enormous amount of
money, and then "buy your way into heaven" by doing good deeds with
a large part of the money. Look at the Carnegie libraries. In an earlier century, those schemes were called
"indulgences" and
were one of the main causes of the Reformation.
Martin Luther's post on the church door was, of course, completely
inadequate to put an end to indulgences.
And there are other sorts of them still being created. "Solar
Renewable Energy Certificates" seem like an indulgence market.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred            cisin(a)xenosoft.com