Indulgences are a good thing.

Protestants made indulgences synonymous with bribery to get into heaven.

I think rewards are a good thing.

Indulgence is not.

bullshit it's all made up

there's no scriptural evidence for purgatory

What an indulgence actually is is charity AFTER your sins have been absolved.

The selling of indulgences that we think of today is a Protestant myth and slander.

source?

Source for what?

that that's what an indulgence actually was

You could Google it and find that literally anywhere except maybe burnallcatholics.org

The problem is that nobody does.

They just believe whatever they learned in the two sentences they heard in a high school history class lecture about Protestantism.

It's the archaic definition of indulgence.

Like Anathema

oh ok

yeah it's the purgatory thing

again, purgatory is bs

Archaic as in what they actually did at the time they were giving indulgences?

Archaic as in that is not the accepted definition in modern language.

that's what i was taught in history

i still believe it despite google

because google agrees

How does Google agree?

you buy yourself a quick trip out of purgatory

Indulgences are charity given after your sins are absolved as they normally would be for less time in purgatory. The problem was corrupt clergymen just selling indulgences and pocketing the money for themselves. The latter is the myth we're told in high school.

The money is supposed to go to a Church-sponsored charity.

but it didn't

But corrupt clergymen created fake charities and pocketed the money.

In the vast majority of cases it did.

ik the specific indulgence saleman martin luther got pissed at was not giving the money to charity

idk the bigger picture

Yeah, I'm not saying it didn't happen.

It did happen.

But the actual practice of indulgences was a good thing when it worked, and most of the time it did.

The act of charity purifies the soul on Earth, as it would otherwise be in Purgatory.

As nothing unclean enters the Kingdom of Heaven.

initially it was definitely good

when it was just charity for the poor

but that's not what it was at the time of the reformation