>Papacy promotes forgiveness through donation to the church (fides caritate formata), transgressing passages John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8-9, and Romans 10:9-10
>Catholic Church endows the pope and many hundreds of other mortal men with spiritual jurisdiction, flouting James 4:12 and thereby absolving them of their sins for many hundreds of years
>Pope is the richest man in Europe and along with his host of proxies and agents lives mantled in luxury while most of Europe starves
>Demands every independent state in the continent reconcile themselves to a degree of papal administration so as to accommodate the survival of the Roman plague, lest they be branded a "heretic" and made war with
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nobadi kers
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Forgiveness through donations was never taught by the church. that would only happen through the sacrament of penance although it is a good thing to financially support the church. while it is true that during the middle ages some popes and bishops were rich and lived lives of luxury instead of doing their jobs as bishops as described in the book of Titus, that doesnt mean that all of them did. many lived lives of poverty and gave their money as alms to the poor in their diocese like bishop john fisher.