(May 22, 2016 at 6:42 pm)Janice_Spokes Wrote: It just seems to be the sort of thing the Roman Catholic Church did to bilk the Midieval peasents out of their money? Want grandma to go to heaven? Give all your money to the "Church."
You're on the right track. It is actually something invented by the RCC to draw in protestant shits who knew they were in some deep eternal trouble, thereby siphoning off tithes from your local protestant church. Your minister is probably hecka mad about this.