Father Orthodox read the following article on Russia Today:
You sign a piece of paper and get 80 to 800 US dollars for just that. Only the small print says, for this much easy money you pawn your eternal soul.
A financial company named “Kontora” in the Latvian capital Riga offers every adult citizen loans in cash. Nothing suspicious, you may say, many do that. Except this financial institution has a very different client agreement.
The document says the loan is given using, as security, “the client’s immaterial being, namely the immortal soul”. The terms state the soul stays the property of “Kontora” until the last cent of the credit is paid. No provisions are made for force majeure.
In an interview with the Latvian daily “Vesti Segodnya”, an unnamed representative of “Kontora” said he sees nothing wrong with buying a soul: “Business is business. We give people palpable cash. If a man values his soul, he’ll definitely pay back the credit. I guess, it’s all fair. Everyone can decide for himself, what’s more important”.
The value of the credit is 1 per cent for each day, and money should be paid back in 90 days or less. However, the agreement also states that, later, the precious asset known as the soul may be bought back from Kontora on its own terms, most probably implying an extra sum of money to be negotiated in each case individually.
The priest of the Holy Trinity Orthodox church in Riga says, “This is a very dangerous undertaking. How can you sell you soul? It’s immortal! If a man disowns his soul, he renounces God, and will not see life eternal!”
Witnesses say people are queuing up in front of the loan company.
Father Orthoduck agrees with the priest of the Holy Trinity Orthodox church in Riga. However, Father Orthoduck is aware of how often something reported on the net, even by a news company is unreliable. So, Father Orthoduck did some checking. He found the actual website of the Latvian loan company, and here is a link to a sample of the contract that people must sign for the small loan.
That is totally weird!
"I also do hereby certify that the said bail is the property of the undersigned and is not promised to anyone." Sounds like an atheist is selling something he sees as valueless. Wonder if this will catch on in the USA.
Makes me glad I’m part Lithuanian.
Didn’t Esau sell his birthright for a bowl of soup?
I guess we are pretty shortsighted sometimesm, aren’t we?
…its interesting how desperation can can take preiminence even over theology at times…..an ancient truism come to mind..”Never Say Never”.
"..and is not promised to anyone". I take it that means Christians, Satanists, and all other forms of believers are out, because they have already promised their souls elsewhere.
Well, except, of course, that Satan always tries to get one to renege on that promise.
Well, except, of course, that Satan always tries to get one to renege on that promise.