OMG!
I can’t believe this. The Vatican, through its sacred
apostolic penitentiary, a court that handles the forgiveness of sins, is
offering time off in purgatory to followers of Pope Francis' tweets.
Good Grief!
The theory is this. You commit a sin, you confess it to a
priest, he forgives you and absolves you of your sin, but you still have to
spend time in purgatory to balance your infraction.
Purgatory is supposedly a place between heaven and hell.
It’s like a court ordered community service sentence to pay for your crime. You
don’t have to go to jail (hell), but you’re not totally free either (heaven).
But there is a thing called indulgences. You do certain
tasks and you get a few years off from your alleged sentence to purgatory.
In the real old days the church sold indulgences and
apparently made a lot of money. To keep the community service analogy going,
it’s like paying off the judge to reduce the number of community service hours
you have to perform.
I didn’t know getting to heaven a little sooner could be
achieved by a few mouse clicks.
Bravo.
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