(August 14, 2017 at 12:48 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: CL:
What value is a confession where the confessee has no intention of making meaning restitution and take socially mandated consequences for his crime?
It's only purpose is to allow the confessee to undeservedly feel better about himself while leaving the victim just as victimized and uncompensated before, while the church benefits from this grotesque transaction by binding the criminal more closely to the self-aggrandizing, self enriching purpose of the church.
Except when the priest instructs the confessee to turn themselves in, they are required to do so if they want their confession to be valid. You need to be truly sorry for what you have done in order to be forgiven in confession. If you are truly sorry for a crime, you will turn yourself in. If you don't, that means you weren't truly sorry and therefore won't be forgiven.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
