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Payment to the Church that Jiang describes as a ticket to purgatory for wealthy sinners.
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indulgence
Payment to the Church that Jiang describes as a ticket to purgatory for wealthy sinners.
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Glossary
A payment to the church that Jiang describes as reducing time in purgatory; he calls it spiritual bribery.
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"...the Catholic Church to enrich themselves. They set up something called indulgences. And the idea is, let's say you're a rich person, and you..."
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"...practices at this time, okay? The first is the idea of indulgence. And this means that maybe you committed a lot of sins, but..."
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