If you can buy an ecclesiastical office or an indulgence, then why not do it? After all, something is only worth the price that the buyer and seller agree upon, right?
Simony is a great sin and a stain on church history.
But my second question involved this: If a priest or a cardinal or a pope is corrupt enough to sell an indulgence, and a buyer is stupid enough to buy one, then that is mere capitalism, is it not? It is no longer in the realm of morals, spirituality, or religion — sorry, buyer! — but only a matter of how much cash the idiot purchaser is willing to part with, for something absolutely (not absolution) worthless.
Let me read Ecclesiastes and check…
Sometimes something is only worth what a buyer is willing to pay, and the seller has no choice in the matter.
And sometimes, something is worth what the county assessor says it’s worth THIS year, for tax puroposes.
I sincerely do not understand your questions.
Sorry.
Simony is a great sin and a stain on church history.
But my second question involved this: If a priest or a cardinal or a pope is corrupt enough to sell an indulgence, and a buyer is stupid enough to buy one, then that is mere capitalism, is it not? It is no longer in the realm of morals, spirituality, or religion — sorry, buyer! — but only a matter of how much cash the idiot purchaser is willing to part with, for something absolutely (not absolution) worthless.
So let simony flourish. The only people it harms are those who engage in it.
Now I get it. Thanks.
In life, to be fruitful, your calculations must be per simony… I’ll let myself out…
And here I was thinking all the empty space in Circle 8 of hell was going to be opened up for soccer fields and dog parks.
Do you trust me enough to blindly follow a link I post?
http://tiny.cc/c5xm001
no
That’s probably wise.