Has your religious or cultural upbringing affect the rest of your life ?

The get out of jail free card of going to confession, then continuing to kill to which I referred is to do with the RC religion, regardless of history.

Mollygo

The get out of jail free card of going to confession, then continuing to kill to which I referred is to do with the RC religion, regardless of history.

Whatever some catholics may say, the catholic church itself has always been absolutely clear in its teaching that absolution only follows a clear regret at having done somethingwrong and a determined desire and aim not to commit that sin again.

Any religion, philosophical belief or political theory, however clear it makes its tenets, will have members who then choose to distort them to their personal, family, political or national advantage. Look at the version of communism that was imposed on Russian after 1919, or China, or North Korea, look at the Taliban's interpretation of Islam's teachings or Iran's.

The same happens with Christian, particularly catholic beliefs.

I will always challenge people who misunderstand catholic teachings, whether deliberately or through ignorance. You cannoy blame a religion that makes it beleif's clear if some members choose to misconstrue them.

I’m sure you cannoy blame a religion that makes it beleif's clear if some members choose to misconstrue them

Who’s blaming a religion?
I’m simply saying that confess and continue happens.
Presumably all those people, whether in the convent laundries, or the OZ children’s homes, or the aforementioned fighting, or just my erstwhile boss, used confess and continue, with their actions unprevented, by a priest who heard their confessions, over and over again without stopping or being able (seal of the confessional) to stop it happening.

Mollygo

I’m sure you cannoy blame a religion that makes it beleif's clear if some members choose to misconstrue them

Who’s blaming a religion?
I’m simply saying that confess and continue happens.
Presumably all those people, whether in the convent laundries, or the OZ children’s homes, or the aforementioned fighting, or just my erstwhile boss, used confess and continue, with their actions unprevented, by a priest who heard their confessions, over and over again without stopping or being able (seal of the confessional) to stop it happening.

The problem is Mollygo In the circumstances you mention and the culture of the period that extended well beyond the homes and the treatment of indigenous people is that this treatments was seen as acceptable and moral and often seen as 'helping' the people involved.

In the same way that in the past people, including children could be hanged for what we would consider trivial crimes. Read almost any Dickens novels and you will read about the appalling indifference and cruelty, which was accepted by people at that time and quite reasonable.

I often wonder what we do now that 100 years from now will be considered way beyond the pale - and it will not be the obvious injustices in our society. It will be the things we do now that we consider entirely laudable like sending children to large achools because bigger schools are able to offer a wider range of opportunitites.

It may be 100 years from now, all primary school will be limited to 100 pupils and secondary schools to 350 or 500 and our 1,000 plus pupils in a school will be considered barbaric.

It’s still using confession as the get out of jail free card you suggested.
It was wrong in the past, it’s wrong now.