Oh definitely they are. I still wonder how they don’t see Trump as the Antichrist.

I don’t doubt that he did.

You’re more concerned about your rights than what is right.

You are incapable of withdrawing the plank from your own eye when it’s pointed out. You just pretend there is a splinter in mine.

No. We can easily judge the truth of your beliefs by the poisonous fruits you have produced.

I’m sure you thought that was relevant.

And the priest has no right to claim such a privilege.

You’re not going to heaven.

If you hire a defense lawyer and confess to them you killed someone, that is protected by attorney client privilege. If you hire a lawyer and confess your intention to kill someone, they are complicit if they don’t report it to the authorities, just like anyone else.

The duties of a priest have nothing in common with a lawyer under the legal system.

So pure selfishness then. A miscarriage of justice for the victim. The deliberate ignoring of societal problems. It only benefits the person who committed the crime by allowing them to get off scot-free. You think it’s a good thing for pedophiles to avoid justice, just so long as they appeal to your god. You think that’s how things should be.

I’ll bet you don’t even wonder how so many pedophiles found protection from their crimes and limitless opportunities to molest more victims simply by hiding within the authority of your church, for literally over a thousand years. And you believe them when they claim that they are the pathway to eternal paradise. Where is your god?

And as I said, what good does that accomplish?

Why should the government make allowances and set up privileges for grownups playing make-believe in order to get away with crimes?

And what good does going to confession accomplish?