"I could walk into a Christian (Catholic) confessional, confess to having sexually abused a dozen children and suggest it might happen again, and walk out"
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No you couldn't, Jim. Without your expressing a 'firm purpose of amendment', the priest would be unable to grant absolution. Even I know that, and I am no RC and have never been anything near. You mean well in so many ways, Jim; but o-dear-me you can be so ignorant sometimes...

~M~