*They* who?
The people who made up sin to confess to a priest?
They didn’t just do it only when they were children.
What a system of bondage. Doing something weekly to get into the habit of it? So you can do it the rest of your life as second nature. At that point, you can do it without even thinking. It loses all it’s meaning when you can do something so by rote that becomes nothing more than going through the motions. Where’s the relationship in that?
And what’s wrong with just keeping short accounts with God and going directly to HIM whenever we slip up and dealing with it right away?
Do you ever read what you post?
...”What a system of bondage”...
Well that is just it unfortunately...as with mormonism and Islam and others....could be why they find they have “common ground” among one another. They are all operating from a system of bondage.
The, like abused woman, they play the victim mentality as if the world is against them. That in itself should cause them to question where they are and why.