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No just somebody with a little common sense is all.
How is speaking to the actions of every Catholic child rapist "common sense"?
Your entire argument is predicated on the fallacy that every single Catholic holds the sanctity of confessional to the same standard you do.
Considering the fact that priests raping children is not a rate event, you're very mistaken. Christianity has been used and abused by horrible people to justify their behavior since its inception.
To sit there and claim that absolutely no Catholic would ever dare sully the sanctity of confession just shows how naive you are about how awful humans are.
Catholicism isn’t like other Christian sects where you can kinda interpret things your own way. The defining characteristic of the Catholic Church is a rigid adherence to established doctrine.
If there were somebody out there that didn’t hold confession to the standard that I do, they probably wouldn’t bother going to confession. It’s not something you’re forced to do at regular intervals. Either this hypothetical person believes in the sanctity of confession or they don’t. If they do, they aren’t going to go to confession to tell the priest that they aren’t sorry and are ready to offend again. And if they don’t, there’s no reason for them to go in the first place.
The only possible third option which is extremely unlikely, is somebody who doesn’t believe in the sanctity of confession, going into a confessional just to not confess at all but boast about their crimes and willingness to do it again. But in that case, they aren’t taking the sacrament, so the priest could report them.
Your middle school level spiel and circular logic are not getting you anywhere here
Yeah, I'm done talking with someone who supports protecting child rapists.
I'd say have a nice life, but I wouldn't actually mean it.
Edit: BTW, I think it's particularly funny that you're defending a religion that has a long history of raping children and covering up for the rapists.
Not just raping children, too. The Catholic Church has actively participated in the genocide of indigenous peoples.