[netmilsmom]

>>Because a Church that sold passes to Heaven (indulgences) would NEVER invent a position where you had to be buried on sacred ground to enter Heaven - which that Church also owned. No, never!<<

We’re on a whole different century here. Come with us.

[FromTheSidelines]

Oh, I fully agree! The question was about the Church’s historical problem with cremation. It wasn’t “heretical”, but it was frowned upon - and it was frowned upon in the time that the Church sold those indulgences and things.

Perhaps there was a bit of a financial motive for dissuading the faithful from pursuing cremation, especially when the Church was the owner of most of the cemeteries?

I’m not saying that’s the case today (although the Church still owns massive amounts of burial grounds) - which some seem to accuse me of doing. But in the past, how can someone be so certain? Especially when salvation itself was up for sale?

[verga]

We’re on a whole different century here. Come with us.

ROFL, I love your pithy comments and superior wisdom in the face of such ignorance and bigotry.