#godfearing — Public Fediverse posts
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Emanuel Greenwald was a Lutheran pastor in OH & PA. He says a poor lad was oppressed by a RC priest to “pray his father’s soul out of purgatory.” When the boy had ran out of money, the priest wanted more. Some 300 years after the Protestant Reformation, indulgences were still being extracted.
Did he have to mention that the boy was poor? Is there more of a duty to speak out when the poor are abused by churches?
How can you remember the poor?
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William Garden Blaikie, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, makes an argument about the religion of the Roman Empire based on how they treated slaves, women, and the poor.
Today, would many strongly object to making any linkage between religion and concern for others?
How can you show concern for those with a harder life?