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Comment by eru

4 days ago

Well, that's about as valid as listening to sovereign citizens' interpretation of the US constitution. (At least from the Catholic point of view as far as I can tell.)

> Nowhere in the Bible for example it is written that one can pay off sins by giving money to some authority.

I'm no expert but doesn't James 2:26 says "Faith without works is dead."?

Surely giving some money (that you had to work hard for!) to the greatest charity in the world (the Catholic church) should count as a good work?

(But I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I don't know what their official reasoning is.)

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aleph_minus_one  4 days ago

> Well, that's about as valid as listening to sovereign citizens' interpretation of the US constitution. (At least from the Catholic point of view as far as I can tell.)

From an "axiomatic perspective" this means accepting much more encompassing axioms than the holy scripture; such a "proof" requires much more than "the Bible/Quran says" as huijzer implicitly used in his argument "That’s why the Bible and Quran are against usury.", but more like "the Bible says and we additionally accept the following axioms that imply that the Pope's interpretation of the Bible is the correct one".

  • eru  3 days ago

    Nah, you can start from the Pope, and you only care about the Bible insofar as the Pope says you should care about it. Very simple 'axiom'.