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To: Hermann the Cherusker
We are not in bondage to these sort of man-made obligations that you Protestants are.

You're not still selling indulgences; are you????

171 posted on 06/10/2005 3:31:05 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
You're not still selling indulgences; are you????

The purchase of indulgences by almsgiving was entirely voluntary, unlike tithing. No one was under a compulsion to give alms to rebuild St. Peter's.

249 posted on 06/12/2005 9:26:16 PM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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