@hollycreenaune@bird.makeup Parallels with religious pardons & indulgences wickedly clear; Chaucer has gone but Ned Beauman's brilliant satirical scifi bites hard with "extinction credits" #VenomousLumpsucker
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From Wikipedia:
By 1500, indulgences had developed into a printed letter that said that having paid money a person had received full pardon for all their sins.