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“Now make confession to the LORD , the God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples around you and from your foreign wives."

Ezra 10:11, The Holy Bible

What is the Catholic sacrament of Confession all about? Is it about helping individuals in a psychotherapeutic method to achieve a better state of mind and psyche for the confessor? Or is it about the authority of the church to keep up with the ongoing lucrative business, the business of psychological mortification and abuse?

Isn’t it true that God is omniscient, meaning that He or She knows everything? The contradiction between the whole concept of Catholic confession with a priest and its chief divine principle, God’s omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence, is as clear as crystal. But still, millions of Catholics around the world are blind enough not to see this fundamental contradiction.

A friend of mine who was born Catholic, came upon this manifest contradiction while he was just a child. At the age of eight, he questioned himself that If God knows everything, then why should one articulate the whole details of his or her sins and go through the process of confession with a priest? "Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.",

Isaiah 59:1. " whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. " 1 John 3:20. God already knows all about our sins. All we need to do is to say the following: "God! I know that you know everything. So, forgive me!" No need for a priest after all.

it is amazing that an eight-year old child can question the whole sacrament of confession in Catholicism to realize that the confessional booths in churches are nothing except an abusing place where a man invades another man’s or woman’s privacy to damage his or her human psyche.

The psychological damage due to the sense of guilt created by the process of confession and the lack of proper psychological/therapeutic attention and treatment after confession, makes the ground for a real psychological mutilation and abuse.

I never forget the sense of guilt and its burden on my entire conscious mind and conscientious in my early teenage-hood when I was failing God a few times a day due to the natural action of masturbation. I was told that masturbation was a house of sin wherein God would burn me in hell for eternal life, if I would enter the house. This was an obvious psychological and religious abuse upon an innocent boy whose only guilt was having a normal and healthy body-function, masturbation.

The Catholic sacrament of confession is nothing except a very wrong religious practice like the rest of the whole organization of any religion in general. If you are a Catholic and you are going through confession with a priest rather than a psychotherapist, then think about it twice before you allow a shaman to remove your cancerous tumor, if you have any tumor to begin with.

The real confession should be mandatory, in a psychotherapeutic setting, for those priests who commit sexual abuse. These priests are the priority for confession than anybody else. Religion has brought a few good things around our lives compared to the amount of damage that it has done. It is time to wake up and see the reality of our world and civilization where we are all from an honorable species called Homo sapiens, the wise man. Let’s earn the name of our species by becoming wise.

Don’t you think that Catholic apologetics should be about presenting the true claims of Catholicism, where they conflict with its own fundamental principles like any other religion? What do you say?

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