This article (written by John Knox...what a pen name!) is pitiful.
He said, The practice of indulgences is based on the ruinous error that anything short of the perfect righteousness that God requires and gives freely in his Son can satisfy God's holiness.
No, it's not. This is the false premise upon which the entire article is based.
And then the article goes off on a tangent based on this false premise.
Alex, we have been through the subject of indulgences before and before on this forum, so I have a hard time believing that you don't have a full handle on what the Catholic Church teaches on this subject, so I see no reason to re-iterate that teaching over and over again. Whether you believe what the Catholic Church teaches is another issue altogether.
Therefore, all posting an article like this does is just stir up the vultures.
Bottom line: if you would like to post an article that refutes what the Catholic Church teaches (refuting what is actually taught, not what is in the mind of some author with a particularly cheesy pen-name), I'll be more than happy to discuss. But this is not such an article.
(BTW, I am pinging the usual Catholic subjects on this. Not because I'd like any of them to argue on this, but just in the fashion of offering friendly advice that it's not worth getting into an argument when the premise presented upon which to argue is a false one)
So much of what anti-Catholic bigots hate about the Catholic Church isn’t even Catholic, but rather a strawman caricature of Catholicism.
‘The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.’ —Ronald Reagan