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Politics : Evolution
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To: Greg or e who wrote (11865)1/2/2011 9:43:03 PM
From: Giordano Bruno  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
You guys really should put some effort into burying this stuff.
It looks bad.

Selling indulgences was an ingenious money-making scam set up by the early Roman Catholic Church.

An indulgence defined: "The purchase of a pardon which secured the buyer's salvation or released the soul of another from purgatory."**1

Here's how it worked: A person gave The Roman Catholic Pope money and then the Pope instructed God forgave the sinner of his sins. It was a money-back-guaranteed, ticket to heaven.

Indulgences had their hay day with the sixteenth-century, gay Pope, Pope Leo X.**2 He became Pope in 1513 and is famous for his zeal at selling indulgences. In those days the governments were ruled by what was called the "established church." It ruled every aspect of European life. People had to obey the laws of the church and pay taxes that went to the church. Whether or not they followers of the faith was irrelevant.

The church leaders peddled the story that without the church's blessing, God would not let a person into heaven. People were programmed to believe that unless they obeyed all church orders, that they would be condemned to hell forever. Most of the people, being uneducated and having no other source of information, believed the story. Thousands of people purchased indulgences. Leo was such a good salesman that he even gave the purchaser a piece of paper acknowledging God's forgiveness.

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