mis@spuxll.UUCP (Meyer Steinberg) (12/13/84)
I read in the New York Post yesterday that the Pope issued a thing saying that Catholics should confess to priests and not to Psychologists. The Pope also said that people have to confess to priests and not to God directly. When I read things like this I say "Shlo Asani Goy", the blessing of thanking that I was not created a non-Jew. Can any logical person tell me why a person should confess his sins to another person who ALSO sins, and what is wrong with me talking to G-d straight? I post this in religion.jewish because my intentions are not to convert non-jews, but to make Jews who are "looking at the other sides" think twice.
rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) (12/14/84)
As ever I must point out that although the Roman Catholic Church is the largest "denomination" inside Christendom that the Protestant reformation was founded on this principle that God and man need no third human agent to come together. Jews can also err in viewing Christians as a monolithic group. Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}