Funk and Wagnalls third definition states, “In the Roman Catholic Church, an indulgence.” Bought and paid for, I might add. In effect the Church was saying “show me the money and God forgives you for whatever outrageous act you have committed. ” History shows that that scam and other corrupt practices caused a rebellion and gave us Protestantism. Is there a Republican out there; by the name of Martin Luther, or better said by the ways of Martin Luther, or even better said, who has the moxie? Pray tell. Islander,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Funk and Wagnalls third definition states, “In the Roman Catholic Church, an indulgence.” Bought and paid for, I might add. In effect the Church was saying “show me the money and God forgives you for whatever outrageous act you have committed. ” History shows that that scam and other corrupt practices caused a rebellion and … Continue reading “On Pardons”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2180\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}