(January 20, 2011 at 3:44 pm)dqualk Wrote: Well the Church still teaches that selling indulgences is correct in theology, however it is to easily abused so the Church has suspended the selling of indulgences to stop the abuse. Now it is sin to sell indulgences, because the Church has prohibitied it. However, the Church still uses indulgences, you just purchase them with good works excluding alms giving. So you can recieve an indulgence for praying or reading your Bible or doing acts of charity etc. You just can not recieved an official indulgence for giving money, even though the Church still recognizes this as a good work. Does that make sense?
Thank you for your thorough response.
I find it hard to believe that in this day and age the concept of indulgences is given any credence at all, EVEN by the catholic church. I had truly thought that they had moved on from this mindset and am disappointed to find that the it still thinks that way.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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