That was the actual sales of indulgences, which in return of payment, absolves one payer from sins or releases them from purgatory after death.
This kind of practice that went out of control was one of the main reasons for Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses.
Now, regarding one of the...
Spanish Kings are Catholics, so they still get the blame. And I will state the same thing I have always said: Catholics like you who are always acting so smug and superior are disgusting creatures that don’t deserve respect and human decency. So if you subhuman scum are gonna cry out about being...
Yeah, because in your right, white minds, we colored people are just a bunch of uneducated, dumb savages that can only be used for menial labour.
I do agree however, that this is indeed getting out of control.
What I am actually accusing ATP and possibly the Catholic majority here, is of...
How many trade depots do the monks own and control? How many banks do the monks own? How many monks are employed as bankers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, and traders? And most important, how many factories do the monks own? NONE whatsoever. As I said, the monks taught the natives how to work...
Their very own doctrine prohibits the establishment of countries of their own, and they think that everything around the world is some sort of an empire of false religions. At best, they're an isolated group, and at worst, they're larping as ancient Israelites.
Reality is also violent in many...
And the US has a vested interest in not wanting to border a theocratic shithole, so what?
Like I said, if Spain spent less time forcing the natives of the New World and my own country to recite hymns from prayer books and spent more time making their colonies profitable in the long run, albeit...
There's also the question of why is there an opposition to such reforms, and why is there a support for reforms as well. Basically, when you think of the Protestant Reformation, we could compare it to a start up company that's in its infancy and needed time and purpose to develop into a...
The kind of learning regarding commerce and finance would have been done in the early stages of the colonial period. The colonial powers would have at least taught the natives the basics of finance and commerce instead of repeating songs from prayer books, and their situation would at least...
Honestly speaking, it would have been more ideal if the general public was actually given factual information about Gnosticism and what it actually teaches without facing judgmental reactions from the diehards that scream heretic whenever we want to know about it. The Dualism that is present in...
Didn't they also have a thing with indulgences?
I would be resentful of the Church getting involved in State affairs if I was a European king, tbh.
Even if that was the case within the Catholic Church, you'd still have reactionaries within the Papal clergy that would have opposed such...