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Six years of Catholic school, 6 days a week going to church. It was grade 1-6. What could I confess to? No option to confess to the sins of my father, who routinely gave my mother black eyes, smacked me every night at the dinner table & took out his stress on me with a belt on a bare bottom. Atheist

This is wrong.

Wow right?? I had to make stuff up b/c it was pretty stupid but I always said my penance prayers looking around for the older sibling I always prayed for.

I personally am agnostic but I don't agree with this, since not every cleric is untrustworthy and confession can be and is actually comforting for many religious kids. However I do agree we desperately need better discipline for the ones who do indeed do these unspeakable things to children

As a young boy in a catholic school we were made to do confession each Friday. I virtually made stuff up to ‘confess’ to.

Nice.

I remember going to confession as a child and _making up_ sins to confess. I couldn't think of anything I'd done that I felt was so horrendous as to be considered a sin, so I lied. A sin-ception of sorts.

Good. It's all BS

Me too. I was traumatized. It was the most horrible experience I can remember.

Yes, me too! Horrible experience!

Trump and Musk are as ugly as hell!

Bless me Father …..for all the guilt you will bestow on me for the next several decades or so How many times can you have impure thoughts about your 6th grade Social Studies teacher Mrs Keithly

Hope that passes. So many pedophile priests.

Interesting to see government trying to interfere with religion. I think that that's called 'fair play'