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Atheists & Agnostics

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9. About that indulgance thing...

Sat May 2, 2015, 11:45 PM

May 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/16/vatican-indulgences-pope-francis-tweets

It's a little more complicated than Francis giving them out for twitter followers, but there you have it.

(It's great seeing them try to explain what it actually means, and how we're all misinterpreting what is really going on.)

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