But you get free Cologne.

As an atheist that like to look at cool old stuff I find it reasonable. Hope they don’t charge for christians though. In my town you can enter the old cathedral free if you say you’re going to pray.

Well they just spent a shitload of money restoring it. I was surprised it was free admission when I visited awhile back.

Unless the money is going to coffers of the govt this is not good.

in Italy, to build St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, the clergy sold the so-called indulgences. To find the money, Pope Leo X intensified the “sale of indulgences”. In practice, in exchange for an offering, the remission of penalties for sins was promised