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Either way, the law has spoken, the first amendment is upheld, and your opinion is not considered.

Luckily this is your opinion, and has no weight on my soul.

You consider it an abortion of justice yet they will still be divinely punished through purgation. Confession only prevents damnation to hell. Furthermore, your end sentence states Jesus would be appaled and you ranted about the church, but he did absolve sins and gave us the ability to do it.

Possibly, we truly cannot know until our day of judgement. Live good and true and honest friend.

In your opinion.

A priest can save you from damnation and interprets divine law like how a lawyer can save you from prison and interprets mortal law.

Catholics actually believe in Purgatory, where the priest saves your soul from damnation to Hell, you are still divinely punished before you enter Heaven. That is unless you get the apostolic pardon and sacrament of penance.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+9%3A1-8%2CMark+2%3A1-12&version=GW

Jesus absolves people of sins and gives men the ability to do so. Your disbelief in the ability does not influence the believers. If you have an issue with it you can always rant with the Unitarian Universalists.

Iron Age actually, and because you don’t believe it doesn’t make it any less real for believers.

The duties of a priest deal with divine law, and are acting closer to a lawyer than you may think.

Or any other crime. Confess you murdered a man and the priest is bound by confession.

It’s quite literally saving your soul from eternal damnation if you follow the religion. Just because you don’t believe in the religious practices doesn’t mean the experience is any less valid.

https://dcyf.wa.gov/safety/mandated-reporter

Washington’s list of mandatory reporters, lawyer is not on there.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/attorney-client_privilege

Attorney client privilege only faulters when you disclose you plan to continue committing a crime or are planning on commiting one. Or in some cases where a protective order or custody order is violated and only the lawyer and client are privileged to the child’s whereabouts. https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914c52eadd7b049347d2545

What you tell a lawyer is confidential bar some rare exceptions. If you attain a lawyer and tell them you have commited the crime of child abuse they do not have to report unless you divulge a plan to continue abusing children. When you attain a priest during confession, you also have this confidentiality.

It allows the church to absolve your sins. The Priests are acting as representatives of God, and cannot tell anyone of anything during confession.

It’s better to think of a Priest like a Lawyer. Attorney-Client privilege means the Lawyer cannot divulge information to police, same with a Priest during confessions.

Pizzagate called Epstein’s island 3 years early.