(February 21, 2015 at 5:58 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: I have heard of instances where tiny children go to their first confession (with no significant sins to report obviously), but the priest isn't satisfied until he makes the children cry. Apparently that is considered a successful confession.
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A priest told my brother once during confession, when he was 8, or 9 years old, that his mother was a pig-herder, raising him like a pig, for not taking children to church every Sunday. Needless to say - both my brother and I are now atheists and hate priests, with all our hearts. I'll never understand why parents send their children into dark closets with weird old f*cks, in denial about their own sexuality - and everything else, for that matter. Smacks of child abuse/neglect to me...
If I ever snap and go psychotic - priests better watch their backs...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw