Skwim
Veteran Member
Not a blank check nor a strawman at all. It all comes down to rationalization. Rationalizations that can include:Confession isn't a blank cheque to do what you like. (That's an idiotic strawman)
It doesn't harm the child so it's not molesting.
Bobby likes it
Other priests do it so it must be alright
Even if it is bad confession will absolve me of it
If found out the church will protect me (which it has)
I'm not saying any of this, including the use of confession, is in line with Catholicism, but when rationalized it becomes true to the abuser. Unlike most other abusers, priests have the luxury of a belief in immediate forgiveness---true or not., and the blind eye of the Church that will protect them. Bobby likes it
Other priests do it so it must be alright
Even if it is bad confession will absolve me of it
If found out the church will protect me (which it has)
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