30 Aug
2024
30 Aug
'24
12:01 a.m.
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