sold pardons and indulgences to those charged with sins • loud high-pitched voice, long flaxen hair, had no beard (and would never have a beard), effeminate characteristics • knew how to sing and preach to people to frighten them to buy the relics • made a lot of money selling his fake relics
Monday, January 3, 2011
A Tale Of Greed
Is first described about a group of young Flemish people who spend their time drinking and reveling, indulging in all forms of excess. After commenting on their lifestyle of debauchery, I enters into a tirade against the vices that they practice. First and foremost is gluttony, which I identify as the sin that first caused the fall of mankind in Eden. Next, I attacks drunkenness, which makes a man seem mad and witless. Next is gambling, the temptation that ruins men of power and wealth. Finally, I denounced swearing.I argue that it so offend God that I forbade swearing in the Second Commandment—placing it higher up on the list than homicide. After almost two hundred lines of sermonizing, I finally returns to my story of the lecherous Flemish youngsters.
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