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nil desperandum

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16. Indeed
Mon May 4, 2015, 02:30 PM
May 2015

when piling on the made-up methods for achieving nirvana the catholics (full disclosure: I started with these kooks) really have cornered the market in how to get their god to help them make a few bucks...

My personal favorites? Annulments...especially after someone has kids with a spouse...pay a few bucks, have the marriage annulled in the eyes of the church and you are free to marry the person you committed adultery with on your original spouse...

When there's a profit to made in sin and forgiving that sin, count on the catholics to have a method to capture and increase revenue...

It really angers me to see these old folks scrambling to get their payouts in order so they can make it to heaven after they're gone...the church capitalizes on those fears of hell or purgatory and uses that as a cudgel to separate seniors from their money.

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