[cctalk] Re: LCM auction

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Aug 29, 2024, at 7:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote:
>> Hasn't he promised to give his money away...
> 
> Yes
> He is a follower of Carnegie.  Ruthlessly make an enormous amount of money, 
> and then "buy your way into heaven" by doing good deeds with a large part of 
> the money.  Look at the Carnegie libraries.

In an earlier century, those schemes were called "indulgences" and were one of 
the main causes of the Reformation.

        paul