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minus-squareAltrex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·3 days agoThis is a fundamental flaw with current Christianity and most religions as a whole. If an arbitrary third party absolves your sins then you don’t feel an emotional need to own your wrongs. The above assuming the person isn’t a psychopath in the first place.
minus-squareZloubida@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·3 days agoAbsolution requires to ask for forgiveness; to ask for forgiveness requires the owning of our wrongs; to Owen our wrongs require reparation and trying at best of our possibility to stop repeating our wrongs.
This is a fundamental flaw with current Christianity and most religions as a whole.
If an arbitrary third party absolves your sins then you don’t feel an emotional need to own your wrongs.
The above assuming the person isn’t a psychopath in the first place.
Absolution requires to ask for forgiveness; to ask for forgiveness requires the owning of our wrongs; to Owen our wrongs require reparation and trying at best of our possibility to stop repeating our wrongs.