On who needs forgiveness. The Catholic Church require of its faithful regular confession so their sins can be absolved to give them enough room to sin again for the new week or whatever is the frequency of the confession but I think it is the Church that needs absolution and their god- if it cared to exist.
Stories such as Philomena or the Magdalene Laundries are shining examples of what the church did in Ireland. And also why it needs absolution. And why I am with Ivan when in Brothers Karomazov he says he will take his chances this side of the grave.
It’s a disgrace that such things happened & mothers are still trying to find their long lost children without success.
Random thoughts 
I remember a girlhood friend who was cafflick, did the mortal sin of eating meat on a Friday, & then said, ”oh well, I’ll just confess on Sunday”. I got thinking afterwards, could you kill someone & just confess on Sunday, & it will all be just hunky dory?
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That’s the principle.
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I think we were about 14-15 or something, & I just remembered thinking it was idiotic.
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The priest tells you to say a few hail Mary and maybe the Lord’s prayer and if you had sinned a lot, the apostles creed n tells you you have been forgiven and go sin no more
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Yes, I’ve heard that many times in movies, etc.
At the time with my girl pal, I was pretty much at the end of my mormon tether, which I left at age 17. We lost contact over the years other than the odd greeting card, & she died of cancer at age 63. Her obituary seemed all tied up with the churchy thing, so I guess she stayed devout.
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Pat my friend, you saw the light early. I was a good Catlick till age 25
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I always seemed to doubt. Every explanation from mother for my questions just never sat well, nor did they from anyone else. I was a nosy kid, & was finally told to stop asking so many questions…..then I discovered libraries & asked my questions quietly through reading. By age 17 is when I got nerve enough to tell mother I was done with church. Emotionally, I was done from the time & began reading whatever I could get my hot little mitts on. I never fit in at church, & mostly daydreamed my way through. Trying to be the good little mormon girl just made me a phony.
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Most of teenage life I slept in church or just told stories through the sermons and that was the same thing in campus. I always found church conducive for sleep and most priests boring to induce sleep
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Yes, boredom was extreme. I never slept but my mind was not there anyway.
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The church would get warm for me to just sleep. When I was much younger I would wonder how the offerings reached god, for instance
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Yeah, weird, that! Hahaha.
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Death is actually considered a sin as other petty ones. At some point the Bible states that their is no big or small sins ,a sin is a sin. What makes killing seem a bigger sin ,is the haunting that comes after and it’s law based punishment.
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You hint at my religious views: Misotheism. Gawd created sinners. Gawd created SIN for that matter. Given His omniscience, how can one claim that He is not responsible for both? Mumble mumble mumble free will doesn’t work in the case of an omni-god.
Quoting, once again, my favorite evil metal group:
…I had a salowe vision
wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought
…sand, in an abrasive swirling murk,
covered the crackled book of life…
A testimony
from the dimension of regret.
This voice comes
from the second right after the disaster
when all there is left to say
in a distressed whisper is
It is too late.
The irreparable has been carved in stone
and those made accountable for it are you.
Standing, shivering in cold dim light
waiting for the sentence of the Holy Dead
like Adam and Eve at the end of time.
One may argue that it was flawed
since the beginning
that the dice were loaded
that God had it all within
that He is the Source.
O heavenly Father!
pathogenic agent of contamination.
harbringer of catastrophe,
icon of the impending Fall:
but what difference does it make?
Altitudines Satana
the vertigo of Liberty
tipped the scales.
A shadow of horror is risen.
This will not be redeemed
no matter how sincere the genuflection
and ardent the confession.
-DEATHSPELL OMEGA. “DROUGHT” EP
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This reminds me of that wonderful poem by Fulke Greville- created sick, commanded to be sound
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Thoughts based on random stimuli ๐ฅ๐ฅ.
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Check mine
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I have been on your blog many times
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Am coming up you know๐
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Well, as a cannibalistic atheist AND a devout Muslim, I find katlick babies to be very tasty and could could NEVER confess my eating them to be a sin to anyone or any god. Hell, eatin’ katlick babies gives my life meaning and my taste buds joy! $Amen$
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This you can’t confess. Confession does not cover things that gives life meaning
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