There is actually more history behind it. Back in the days when the local king would collect taxes from his subjects, churches wouldn’t have to pay. This was because taking money from the church was considered a sin. Whilst donating to the church was a way to absolve yourself from sins. The church would take care of your immortal soul, if you’d just continue to pay them. This lead to a well funded church and no taxes being paid by the church.
How anybody ever agreed to this I don’t know. We’ve invented something called an immortal soul, which is what you actually are instead of your body. We’ve also invented something called hell, which is endless suffering for your immortal soul. If you don’t follow the rules, which we’ve invented btw, your soul will end up in this hell. One of the rules is give us money.
But then people would just simply say, I’ve never followed your rules, guess I’m fucked, no point in following the rules now. But wait, we’ve got a special deal if you call within 30 minutes and give us money. We can fix your soul so it isn’t fucked and you can try again to follow the rules. We would also like you to tell us what you did wrong, so we can use it to blackmail you, I mean so we know what part of the soul to fix.
There is actually more history behind it. Back in the days when the local king would collect taxes from his subjects, churches wouldn’t have to pay. This was because taking money from the church was considered a sin. Whilst donating to the church was a way to absolve yourself from sins. The church would take care of your immortal soul, if you’d just continue to pay them. This lead to a well funded church and no taxes being paid by the church.
How anybody ever agreed to this I don’t know. We’ve invented something called an immortal soul, which is what you actually are instead of your body. We’ve also invented something called hell, which is endless suffering for your immortal soul. If you don’t follow the rules, which we’ve invented btw, your soul will end up in this hell. One of the rules is give us money.
But then people would just simply say, I’ve never followed your rules, guess I’m fucked, no point in following the rules now. But wait, we’ve got a special deal if you call within 30 minutes and give us money. We can fix your soul so it isn’t fucked and you can try again to follow the rules. We would also like you to tell us what you did wrong, so we can use it to blackmail you, I mean so we know what part of the soul to fix.