Originally posted by Mors
What does catholicism mean to you?
Why do you confess to a priest when you could speak directly toward God?
Why would you devote your life to a God which you do not have physical proof exists?
Originally posted by Blue_UK
I was a catholic from birth, but gave it up when I realised the fallacy.
Originally posted by Mors
And they also said that confessions through a priest were origonally meant for only severe sins such a murder or rape, not for everyday sins, those could be confessed direcly to God.
Originally posted by DefSkeptic
I always Used to ask my CCD teacher questions on difficult issues that religion pretends to know the answer for...
CCD teacher? Wouldn't you be better off asking question about bi-scanline matrix filtering or something like that?
Confession, as I understand, was originally a practice started in Babylon to enforce control over the population.Originally posted by Red Devil
This stems from knowledge is POWER, a medieval concept when the church ran governments and kings. The more the church knew the stronger its stranglehold. Ever since then the church has kept hold of this concept.
To tell the truth, my proof is very simply that it makes sense to me.
Guilt is a powerful motivating factor. So is the belief that priests can talk to god on your behalf and convince god to change his mind, you're not such a bad guy after all. If I believed that, I'd want the priests to believe I was sorry too.Originally posted by edgar
o yea......the church is going to have total control over my actions.........its gonna send altar boys to beat me into submission...