Oh, don’t get me wrong… I think its all absurd. Just mentioning Catholics don’t buy into this tripe anymore.

This is one reason I still keep my Amex. Amex always sides with it’s customers in charge backs, until definitive proof otherwise from the vendor comes.

Were you even aware that this was a mainstream teaching of a small sect of Christians before you saw this meme?

I dunno if we can call Evangelicals a small sect at this time. Especially not in the US. Catholicism is a “small sect” in the US, for the most part.

They also have a ton of books saying that the universe was created in 7 days

That’s just not really true, for Catholics. Not for a few centuries at least.

Most evangelicals think Catholics are devil worshippers, just like Muslims.

I think its more than what you claimed… They are just objectively incorrect facts. Many people have felt electricity, we know where it comes from, what causes it, and how to control it, even.

It’s less than time and space switch in a singularity, and more that they are “undefined”.

Like dividing by zero.

There’s also cyclic conformal universe theory, put forth by Penrose.

Where once you have an empty enough space… its mathematically indistinguishable from a singularity.

So, if its true, then yeah, we could be inside of a blackhole/singularity.

At this point, that doesn’t really matter.

Well, we have evidence that a lawyer can do what you claim, and none that a priest can…

Which is a non-issue anyways. Iron age mythology (Not bronze aged, as I was corrected) has no place in the laws governing a secular society.

Anyone can believe whatever mythology they enjoy. That doesn’t mean we need to codify their beliefs into law as a way of protecting criminals.

Jainism is so great, because the induct children into the religion as monks, as a form of slavery…

So, back to finding an example, I guess?

They’re also really keen on starving people to death, too… If they think it happens to be a terminal illness.

So, you were saying?

Except this is attraction to non-consenting humans, not an attraction to consenting humans.

It’s quite literally saving your soul from eternal damnation if you follow the religion.

Except, it’s just bronze age mythology… Which has no place in the law.

They can get therapy, while also facing a judicial system.

When you attain a priest during confession, you also have this confidentiality.

Only to protect rapists from the law, though.

A priest isn’t there to defend you in court room. THAT’S why lawyers have client privilege, not to protect rapists, but to be able to mount a legal defense.

If you require priests to report what they hear in confession the only thing you accomplish is people stop going to confession

Sounds like an overall net benefit then?

The argument goes that testimony brought of things revealed in confession is by it’s nature hersay

Testifying that someone confessed to a crime is not hearsay. Hearsay is “Person X told me that Person Y did Z”.

Testifying to someone confessing to you is exactly what cops do on the stand, when they testify about a confession a perp provided in an interrogation.

The main issue at hand here is the Catholic seal of confession, which has an extremely long history in US law (and in the law in many other countries) as being protected under freedom of religion

We had a long history in law for the ownership of humans, and how humans can be treated by their owners…

Doesn’t make it right, or even constitutional.

If my “strongly held religious beliefs” mean I must kill every fascist I see, am I protected by the first amendment? It’s my exercise, and I must be able to exercise it, right?

Or, does the first amendment say the government cannot make laws that target religious folk, either for benefits or persecution?

Just because someone gets to do it doesn’t mean it’s legal.

Legal or illegal is immaterial. Who is punished for it, and who is protected from punishment is what matters.