Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxv!tischler From: tischler@ihuxv.UUCP (Mark D. Tischler) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Guilt Message-ID: <653@ihuxv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 10:06:28 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxv.653 Posted: Wed Feb 1 10:06:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 09:06:07 EST References: <791@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 12 Dave, If you think that putting ALL your sins behind you (not talking about murder and the like, here) is a cop-out, wouldn't you also admit that receiving forgiveness for sins from a priest through confession is also a cop-out? Of all people, you should tell a priest! Why not talk to the person you hurt or offended by the sin? That seems quite a bit more appropriate. But to receive penance from an uninvolved person for any old sin seems like taking the easy way out. Understanding your sins, and promising yourself not to do them again is just as much "the easy way out". Let's not be hypocrites, Mark