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    5 days ago

    It allows the church to absolve your sins. The Priests are acting as representatives of God, and cannot tell anyone of anything during confession.

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      4 days ago

      And as I said, what good does that accomplish?

      Why should the government make allowances and set up privileges for grownups playing make-believe in order to get away with crimes?

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        4 days ago

        It’s quite literally saving your soul from eternal damnation if you follow the religion. Just because you don’t believe in the religious practices doesn’t mean the experience is any less valid.

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          It’s quite literally saving your soul from eternal damnation if you follow the religion.

          Except, it’s just bronze age mythology… Which has no place in the law.

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            3 days ago

            Iron Age actually, and because you don’t believe it doesn’t make it any less real for believers.

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              2 days ago

              Anyone can believe whatever mythology they enjoy. That doesn’t mean we need to codify their beliefs into law as a way of protecting criminals.

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          So pure selfishness then. An abortion of justice for the victim. The deliberate disregard for fixing societal problems. It only benefits the person who committed the crime by allowing them to get off scot-free. You think it’s a good thing for pedophiles to avoid justice, it’s good that they get to go to heaven – just so long as they appeal to your god. Obviously it’s better than the secular state prosecuting them for their crimes. You think that’s how things should be.

          It sounds like you don’t understand what good works even are.

          I’ll bet you don’t even wonder how so many pedophiles found protection from their crimes and limitless opportunities to molest more victims simply by hiding within the authority of your church, for literally over a thousand years. And you believe them when they claim to hold the keys to eternal paradise. Where is your god?

          The church is not a higher authority than the democratic state. I know you think it’s the other way around, but we have 2000 years of church-blessed genocide, torture, child-r*pe, the conquering and plundering of weaker civilizations, slavery, and corruption that proves definitively that the church must never be entrusted with power. We called the worst of it The Dark Ages for good reasons. The church is subject to the Will of The People, because the church was always lying when they claimed to speak for god. It was never anything more than a ploy for greedy old men to acquire land, gold, and virgins, and of course, to murder anyone who inconvenienced them. Same as always.

          Jesus would be disgusted. The church has never followed him.

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            3 days ago

            Catholics actually believe in Purgatory, where the priest saves your soul from damnation to Hell, you are still divinely punished before you enter Heaven. That is unless you get the apostolic pardon and sacrament of penance.

            https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9%3A1-8%2CMark+2%3A1-12&version=GW

            Jesus absolves people of sins and gives men the ability to do so. Your disbelief in the ability does not influence the believers. If you have an issue with it you can always rant with the Unitarian Universalists.

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                3 days ago

                You consider it an abortion of justice yet they will still be divinely punished through purgation. Confession only prevents damnation to hell. Furthermore, your end sentence states Jesus would be appaled and you ranted about the church, but he did absolve sins and gave us the ability to do it.

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                  3 days ago

                  You are incapable of withdrawing the plank from your own eye when it’s pointed out. You just pretend there is a splinter in mine.

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                    3 days ago

                    Either way, the law has spoken, the first amendment is upheld, and your opinion is not considered.