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Confessions And Confessionals
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What is the mentality behind this? I’m not well versed regarding this but it’s my knowledge that you go to one and he prays to god for your forgiveness? Why does god need a middleman? Surely god should listen to all of his subjects?
The only way I see this as a good idea is that it gives the guilty a way of getting something off their chests do is therapeutic but what happens if there is no confessional nearby or at all?
On a side note is it really between just you and him? Even if you confessed to a murder, rape, paedophilia which involved the priests family? Are they under an oath not to tell another living soul? What is the punishment if they do and if they don’t statistically are they more likely to suffer depression and are suicide rates higher for them dragging around all the baggage?
Maybe they just laugh and tell jokes about confessions they’ve heard at their yearly priests party?
The only way I see this as a good idea is that it gives the guilty a way of getting something off their chests do is therapeutic but what happens if there is no confessional nearby or at all?
On a side note is it really between just you and him? Even if you confessed to a murder, rape, paedophilia which involved the priests family? Are they under an oath not to tell another living soul? What is the punishment if they do and if they don’t statistically are they more likely to suffer depression and are suicide rates higher for them dragging around all the baggage?
Maybe they just laugh and tell jokes about confessions they’ve heard at their yearly priests party?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The mentality - as I understand it, is that the priest is the conduit between Man and God. He has God's permission to absolve the confessor of his or her sins by giving them absolution.
The confessional is sacred, and the priest is not permitted to divulge anything he hears there. I would imagine the penalty for breaking that condition would be excommunication - expulsion from the church.
Because I think that priest lead in-natural lives anyway, I am unsure how they cope with the things they hear - maybe the simply pray and feel better.
As an atheist, I am probably not best to answer this - but I really hope you don't get one of the zealots coming on and preaching at you.
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The confessional is sacred, and the priest is not permitted to divulge anything he hears there. I would imagine the penalty for breaking that condition would be excommunication - expulsion from the church.
Because I think that priest lead in-natural lives anyway, I am unsure how they cope with the things they hear - maybe the simply pray and feel better.
As an atheist, I am probably not best to answer this - but I really hope you don't get one of the zealots coming on and preaching at you.
More here - https:/
Like anything else in life I suppose jahulaye. Ive had to have a session today with a therapist, told her that there are things which I'm NOT prepared to talk about but somehow I'm growing to trust her and maybe sometime in the future I will. Same with priests I guess. Sometimes its good to get things off ur chest but be discerning about who you get it off to. I got some things off my chest with a ''secular'' therapist some years ago and ended up in prison on remand. Religious/Secular theres always nob ends.
(not like me to defend the religious but theres been some who I trust more than the secular)
(not like me to defend the religious but theres been some who I trust more than the secular)
Not an RC, so find it difficult to understand. Personally, if I have a problem I talk to God myself to think about a way forwards. For a serious problem I go to church and talk to God after sitting quietly in a place where others have prayed for nearly a thousand years. But RC's are a bit different.
Yes, priests are under an oath not to reveal anything they learn in the Confessional, no matter what. Court-cases have hung on this.
Yes, priests are under an oath not to reveal anything they learn in the Confessional, no matter what. Court-cases have hung on this.
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