Maybe that's not what God's instructions really say. It's much more likely that you are understanding the Greek wrong than it is that millions of Greek-speaking people, for whom it is their native language, have understood it wrong for 2000 years. Occam's razor.
BTW, there is no "lure," "pagan" or otherwise, to going to confession. It's painful and humiliating. It's supposed to be. It's just not as painful and humiliating as the punishment Christ suffered for those same sins.
Occam’s razoR isnt about syncretic paganism, the human heart, nor religion.
“It’s supposed to be.
Not according to Scripture.