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This work promotes the purchase of indulgences at holy sites; these were pieces of paper representing the pardoning by the Church of purgatorial time otherwise owed after death due to sins.
An analogous accusation has rightly been made about the now vast business of carbon-offsetting: that it is the modern equivalent of the mediaeval Roman Catholic practice of the purchase of indulgences.
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