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[-] Turun@feddit.de -4 points 1 year ago

If hell is real and you get out by praying then this is not a scam. So if climate change is real and it is stopped by emitting less carbon then carbon offsets are not a scam?

So you are either saying climate change is just something to believe in and therefore carbon offsets are a scam, because they fight a problem that is not real.
Or you are a religious person and are saying that climate change is real, and that carbon offsets are useful, despite them being clearly a scam.
Or you are saying that the medieval system was actually a scam, because the monks did not pray as they said they would. But then this is actually a medieval meme, criticising monks for knowingly lying to people, and completely irrelevant in modern times.

[-] theluddite@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago

Or they're saying that regardless of whether or not heaven and hell are real, both carbon offsets and indulgences are a self-serving practice run by corrupt institutions allowing wealthy people to be publicly absolved from the harm they continue to do.

[-] soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If Good actions → Paradise
Then Indulgences -(Enables the Church to do)→Good actions → Paradise

Don't believe that people in the past accepted things without questioning them.

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