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Originally posted by fluffho
and yet i dont do ANY of those things and im still going to hell hmmmmmmmmm
is it because they stick $1 in the bowl? $1 that goes to the pope so he can have more gold plates and diamonds??
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Fluff, your posts on this thread lead me to believe you have a very distorted view of Christianity. I don't know where you get most of your info or how you came to these assumptions, but that is certainly not the case.
First of all, the collection is optional. No one is forcing anyone to put any money in the basket. (I don't, due to the fact that I simply can not afford it. I scrape by each month to my bills.)
Second of all, the Pope does not get that money, it generally goes to routine church upkeep and maintenance.
Third, if those people do those things and then go to church, that doesn't mean they will go to heaven. (In Catholicism for sure, maybe other religions within Christianity too, but I'm not positive about them.) They need to confess their sins. Simply going to church does not accomplish that.