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[–] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Jesus wouldn't narc on you, but he might tell you to surrender yourself to police. no murder is one of the Ten Commandments. this is how Catholic confession works, at least (I am not Catholic.)

I suspect the kid consented to the pastor calling the marshals, after deciding to turn himself in. otherwise how would they know where to find him that quickly?

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm Catholic. When I was a kid I had to go to confessional and like most Catholic kids we just made shit up cause I mean come on, no kid is keeping tally of all the stuff they've done. So we'd just lie to the priest and try to one up each other with "stuff we did". The priest never told our parents or teachers.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And it was always "three Hail Marys and a Glory Be" and you're golden. What a weird ritual.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago

I'm not Catholic, but the confession is one of those things that, if done right, might actually be very valuable. The ability to talk to someone about the bad stuff you did, get it off your chest, get some sort of closure so you can let it go, without any risk of getting ratted out to the authorities, could be very good for your mental health, I imagine.

And if everybody does it, there's no stigma attached to it. So if you go and have nothing to say, you go to cover for the people who do have something.

Though modern therapy can serve the same role, of course.

[–] provisional@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's the most unhinged confession you and your friends did?

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

one of my friends made up a wild story about encasing his sisters pet hamster in concrete after she found his porn stash and told his parents. He didn't have a sister, he didn't even have a pet hamster.

the one I remember I told was that I stole $100 from my moms purse and used it to buy pogs and cigarettes and beer. I was 10.

[–] provisional@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's hilarious! I don't know how the priest is able to keep a straight face as the confessions keep getting wilder and wilder!

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

yeah I dont' know either. looking back I know that the Priest knew the majority of the confessions were just bullshit but I guess we were all still technically technically committing a sin by lying and therefore he was still doing his job.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago

Genuinely, WWJD is an interesting thought exercise here.

Without really digging for it, my first guess would be "repent and sin no more." I imagine less turning oneself in to the cops, and more directly asking forgiveness of the ones you wronged. There wouldn't really be a "setting it right" for such an act though.

That's where I can't imagine where things would really go. The feebs would definitely involve themselves anyway, even on the razor slim chance the aggrieved did not.

As much as we very much disagreed (to put it gently) with this hateful brainwashing crusade and are maybe glad to be rid of a prominent source of it, it is still not the way of Christ to be another's executioner.

I'll be honest, I'm struggling here. On one hand Kirk was causing a lot of harm through pursuading the worst sides of people under the guise of "logic." His individual capacity for further harm has been neutralized ("martyr" narrative aside), and that feels like a positive.

But in the end, I don't want to celebrate murder. I wish it never came to this and people had enough sense to have just ignored him entirely. The fact that so many people find this ideology appealing and we've gotten this deep demonstrates a moral decay of our civilization, and in the end he was slain by the monster he and his ilk helped to unleash on us all.

Heh sorry for the rant as a reply. Just thinking out loud I guess.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

From the pastor calling them in hushed tones from the back room?

I dunno. Agree its a terrible situation.