Did you go to confession this Christmas? During 2015?

R.D. aka MR.D · 07-01-2016 05:17AM

Last time was primary school.

I don't know anybody that still goes, even my granny stopped about 20 years ago.

I mean, i would love to hear how people justify going and confessing their sins and asking for absolution from an employee of an organisation that raped, beat and humiliated 1000's of children in Ireland and many more all over the world.
Nothing about belief or whatever but how would you justify that from a logical standpoint?

I mean 'i cheated at a board game' was the worst I ever told them and that was even a lie because I didn't have any good ones. So I lied but I suppose i should have seized the opportunity to confess that the next time around!

Sierra 117 · 07-01-2016 09:48AM

I haven't been to confession in well over ten years. Same for mass, too.

BenedrylPete · 07-01-2016 09:56AM

Didnt go.

Felt no need as god is supposedly the creator of the universe and therefore has at the very least first person playback.

And email too, so he could easily monitor me, or even outsource some eworker in the philippines to get proof.

When hes not busy flooding the place that is.

smash · 07-01-2016 10:33AM

I haven't been to confession since I was in school.

eviltwin · 07-01-2016 10:35AM

Last went in primary school. Don't think it's a healthy thing to do tbh. If you do something wrong fix it or make amends. A few hail Mary's don't cut it.

Liamario · 07-01-2016 10:39AM

Like a lot of you, I was forced to go. It was all a bit ridiculous was something I felt at a very young age. I made stuff up more than anything, as I was genuinely a good kid. When you think about how much power the church had only a couple of decades ago, it makes you sick. They still have too much.

KungPao wrote: »

I realised the insanity of religion at my first confession.

I remember asking my teacher what to say...and her: just say some bad things you have done. So, "eh, I was rude to me ma" etc to some aul fella.

Such utter bull****.

The aul wan was super pissed off at me when I was around 9 (1990) and told her I'd had enough and no more mass for me. She actually said that the Devil was making me do these things. lol.

What does she say about it all now?

Rubberlegs · 07-01-2016 10:44AM

I haven't been to confession since I was about 12, so 30 years give or take. I don't go to Mass either, and if I have to be in church for a funeral, I don't go up for communion. I don't have time for any of it, to be honest.

The_Valeyard · 07-01-2016 10:56AM

Its 2016!!!

You should really be discussing whether you will be going to confession for Holy week and Easter .

Shenshen · 07-01-2016 11:10AM

First and last time was when they made us go in primary school.
But then, why would I go to confession if I don't go to church either?

AnonoBoy · 07-01-2016 11:22AM

I made my first confession at 7 or 8 years old.

That was the only time I ever went.

GLaDOS · 07-01-2016 11:26AM

At least 14 years since I last went I reckon

rainbow kirby · 07-01-2016 11:52AM

Was made to go once in secondary school, the priest shouted at me when I said I hadn't been to Mass in 3 years so I just walked out then. That was somewhere around 1999...

Ally Dick · 07-01-2016 12:07PM

I go once a year. I get something out of it to be honest. Once I have offloaded my sins, and have received my penance, I tend to feel a bit better about where I'm headed

kjl · 07-01-2016 12:27PM

I like to go to confession and give them really sexy stories claiming it was sin because I wasn't married to the girl. I love hearing the priest sweat it out.

scdublin · 07-01-2016 01:00PM

No, haven't been since primary school and won't be going again. The way I see it, if you're religious and have your own relationship with god, you can confess your sins to him directly through prayer etc.

Mesrine65 · 07-01-2016 01:44PM

& for your penance you shall perform seven Male Hairys :eek:

Aglomerado · 07-01-2016 01:49PM

Mesrine65 wrote: »

& for your penance you shall perform seven Male Hairys :eek:

My kind of penance!!

I haven't been since I was 16 in 1993 when an aul' bollix of a priest in Ennis Friary gave out to me for missing mass, swearing at my parents and various other anodyne sins.

He deemed the rosary decades he gave me to be a "generous penance".

gobshyte.

I never went again. He should see my black soul now!!!

eigrod · 07-01-2016 01:53PM

kjl wrote: »

I like to go to confession and give them really sexy stories claiming it was sin because I wasn't married to the girl. I love hearing the priest sweat it out.

I suspect most priests will probably be thinking to themselves "tsk, you haven't lived...if only you knew what I've been up to".

Agricola · 07-01-2016 02:07PM

Must read up on the origins of it. Seems to me like something that was dreamed up in the early church by some power mad clergyman who got off on hearing the juicy carry on of his congregation.

IamtheWalrus · 07-01-2016 02:12PM

I recently heard my parents talking about there being no confession sessions in the local church anymore. They both agreed that, in hindsight, it was a bit silly. I was thinking that two rational people are able to see how silly it is but aren't able to go a few steps further and see how silly it all is. That's not an attack on religion, more a comment on the human condition.

MillField · 07-01-2016 02:13PM

no.

IamtheWalrus · 07-01-2016 02:14PM

Agricola wrote: »

Must read up on the origins of it. Seems to me like something that was dreamed up in the early church by some power mad clergyman who got off on hearing the juicy carry on of his congregation.

Control, to remind you that you are nothing and need to be absolved by the powerful. You in turn will be grateful for the absolution and give money.

cowboyBuilder · 08-01-2016 11:06PM

BenedrylPete wrote: »

Didnt go.

Felt no need as god is supposedly the creator of the universe and therefore has at the very least first person playback.

And email too, so he could easily monitor me, or even outsource some eworker in the philippines to get proof.

When hes not busy flooding the place that is.

Or giving Katie Taylor Gold medals ..

topmanamillion · 08-01-2016 11:42PM

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Or giving Katie Taylor Gold medals ..

Or blinding those pesky African children.

NIMAN · 09-01-2016 01:25AM

No, I left school a long time ago.

blackbird 49 · 09-01-2016 01:30AM

Haven't seen the inside of a confession box since I was about 7/8 and never will ever again

Did you go to confession this Christmas? During 2015?

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