[Marxism] Buying Your Way Into Heaven?!!

["Tony Lawless" <lifesunquietdream@xxxxxxx>]

Lenin suggests that "Catholics have no problem with the idea that you can buy 
your way into heaven." Sounds like a view informed more by Protestant prejudice 
than informed Marxism to me!
Tony
New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07783a.htm
 
Indulgences
The word indulgence (Lat. indulgentia, from indulgeo, to be kind or tender) 
originally meant kindness or favor; in post-classic Latin it came to mean the 
remission of a tax or debt. In Roman law and in the Vulgate of the Old 
Testament (Isaiah 61:1) it was used to express release from captivity or 
punishment. In theological language also the word is sometimes employed in its 
primary sense to signify the kindness and mercy of God. But in the special 
sense in which it is here considered, an indulgence is a remission of the 
temporal punishment due to sin, the guilt of which has been forgiven. Among the 
equivalent terms used in antiquity were pax, remissio, donatio, condonatio. 
WHAT AN INDULGENCE IS NOT
To facilitate explanation, it may be well to state what an indulgence is not. 
It is not a permission to commit sin, nor a pardon of future sin; neither could 
be granted by any power. It is not the forgiveness of the guilt of sin; it 
supposes that the sin has already been forgiven. It is not an exemption from 
any law or duty, and much less from the obligation consequent on certain kinds 
of sin, e.g., restitution; on the contrary, it means a more complete payment of 
the debt which the sinner owes to God. It does not confer immunity from 
temptation or remove the possibility of subsequent lapses into sin. Least of 
all is an indulgence the purchase of a pardon which secures the buyer's 
salvation or releases the soul of another from Purgatory. The absurdity of such 
notions must be obvious to any one who forms a correct idea of what the 
Catholic Church really teaches on this subject. 
 
 
 
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