Posted on 11/18/2014 7:50:17 AM PST by Salvation
We have a batch of priests, too. If they go in the actual confessional, they don't have to go face to face, but the others are just sitting about in various rooms.
Why, that's not a sin. It's just a "failure to communicate."
I almost never go in the Confessional. Face to face works.
LOL! That is a great way to put that.
I had that attitude when I was in my late teens. I asked a priest about it. He said that I had a malformed conscience.
He was correct. I wanted to do something that was a sin and I tried to talk myself into it NOT being a sin. That works for about ten seconds.
Sociopaths have malformed consciences. YOU don't have a malformed conscience. You know better at all times.
Thank you, Strother Martin, from Cool Hand Luke.
LOL!
We lived in a Muslim country for five years. THEY have the same concept of sin that we have. Yes, what ISIS is doing is considered criminal and sinful to those Muslims who are good Muslims.
The Koran, after all, is really a knock-off of the Bible, MOSTLY the Old Testament. And yes, I happen to have a Koran too. My husband got it as a gift from his boss when we left the country (KSA).
It’s fine for me, too. I have no trouble telling my Weight Watchers meeting everything I’ve done, either ;-).
I like the children to know they have the option, though, in case of a burst of shyness.
Absolutely! I like that there is an option. I used to go in if I didn’t know the priest, then I thought to myself you don’t KNOW the priest. Duh!
I thought about putting it in the Examination of Conscience list.
What would be the objective truth in this instance?
How do you know the priest was correct? And why would you let another person determine the state of your conscience?
That’s nice
At the moment, you seem to be asking "What is truth?"
I've seen that question before.
This works pretty well for that as well. If I were still teaching I would use this list. You could teach a year on this easy.
The priest ONLY knows what I tell him, that is, his words are because of what I confessed. He can know nothing more of any penitent than what s/he tells him.
The priest is governed by the Ten Commandments...and God told us those. God determined our conscience many thousands of years ago.
His correctness follows those Ten Commandments, nothing more or nothing less.
Weight Watchers? Me too, every Monday morning.
Some weeks I feel chatty, some weeks I don't say a word. Ah me, the quest to lose continues. It doesn't get much easier does it? BUT, it works so I'm sticking with it.
I go on Tuesdays. It’s only $14 a week (if I’m not at goal), much cheaper than a therapist.
I see.
If there is a list of actions that someone is not supposed to do, yet they want to...they have a malformed conscience...according to those that follow the list.
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