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To: Leaning Right
If there is no Hell then what function does Purgatory serve?

Do the countless who perished during the inquisitions and the auto da fes get retroactively undamned and apologized to?

7 posted on 03/29/2018 7:24:45 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" as conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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I guess it was once the name of a great ski area in Colorado.


8 posted on 03/29/2018 7:28:22 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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If there is no hell, what is justice? What is mercy?


9 posted on 03/29/2018 7:32:13 PM PDT by Coyote Choir
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To: Ciaphas Cain

> If there is no Hell then what function does Purgatory serve? <

Please be patient. Any day now Francis will probably declare that there is no such thing as Purgatory.


10 posted on 03/29/2018 7:32:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
If there is no Hell then what function does Purgatory serve?

Do the countless who perished during the inquisitions and the auto da fes get retroactively undamned and apologized to?

Purgatory is not a way to escape Hell. Purgatory is a way to cleanse the soul of sins not expunged during life.

As for the Spanish Inquisitions the numbers are well documented and amount to 3000 to 5000 over 350 years which is far less than the number pf witches burned in the rest of Europe in the same centuries. And contrary to the protestant propaganda the inquisitions only had authority over professed Catholics.

16 posted on 03/29/2018 7:47:32 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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“If there is no Hell then what function does Purgatory serve?”

The waiting room for County General?


27 posted on 03/29/2018 9:54:38 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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