Would you let Ben hear your confession?

[Alexander's Horse]

Apparently he has joined the seminary.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If life mirrors Poly, there would simply be a banner over the confessional booth reading "This priest is on your ignore list".

[Bereta_Eder]

[kentonio]

The idea of ben sitting in a small wooden box wearing a dress while strangers tell him intimate details of their sex lives disturbs me quite frankly.

[Elok]

I'm not Catholic, so no. But, fun as it is to snark about BK, there's no reason to believe he'd be a particularly bad priest. He knows Catholic doctrine backward and forward, and is intensely loyal to it. He obviously enjoys thinking about theology. He's not too uptight to deal with seculars, and jokes aside we've no evidence that he's a predator. His dishonest debating tactics are unlikely to be relevant, as he only uses them when he's arguing politics, etc.; his own beliefs mirror the RCC's almost exactly, so he would have no reason to lie and cheat. I have no idea how good he'd be at sermons or confessions, but better this than telling endless waves of students how Elizabeth I was the forerunner to Hitler. Good on him.

[Elok]

Also, if a Catholic priest's workload is anything like his Orthodox counterpart's, he won't have much time left for interminable debates on Poly, so there's that.

[Sava]

No.

[Kidlicious]

I'm not Catholic, so no. But, fun as it is to snark about BK, there's no reason to believe he'd be a particularly bad priest. He knows Catholic doctrine backward and forward, and is intensely loyal to it. He obviously enjoys thinking about theology. He's not too uptight to deal with seculars, and jokes aside we've no evidence that he's a predator. His dishonest debating tactics are unlikely to be relevant, as he only uses them when he's arguing politics, etc.; his own beliefs mirror the RCC's almost exactly, so he would have no reason to lie and cheat. I have no idea how good he'd be at sermons or confessions, but better this than telling endless waves of students how Elizabeth I was the forerunner to Hitler. Good on him.

When priests aren't giving confessional or sermons do they put them back in their cages? That's what you would have to do with BK so that he wouldn't constantly offend people.

[kentonio]

I'm not Catholic, so no. But, fun as it is to snark about BK, there's no reason to believe he'd be a particularly bad priest. He knows Catholic doctrine backward and forward, and is intensely loyal to it. He obviously enjoys thinking about theology. He's not too uptight to deal with seculars, and jokes aside we've no evidence that he's a predator. His dishonest debating tactics are unlikely to be relevant, as he only uses them when he's arguing politics, etc.; his own beliefs mirror the RCC's almost exactly, so he would have no reason to lie and cheat. I have no idea how good he'd be at sermons or confessions, but better this than telling endless waves of students how Elizabeth I was the forerunner to Hitler. Good on him.

You're forgetting that a fairly large part of a priests role is supposed to be to show understanding and compassion to people.

[loinburger]

BK really sucks at debating, but priests don't debate inside of the confessional - they lecture and judge, which BK excels at, so if I were going to have my confession heard by a priest for some reason then there'd really be no disadvantage to having BK be that priest.

[Lorizael]

I've wondered before--who hears the confessions of the confession-hearers?

[kentonio]

BK really sucks at debating, but priests don't debate inside of the confessional - they lecture and judge, which BK excels at, so if I were going to have my confession heard by a priest for some reason then there'd really be no disadvantage to having BK be that priest.

You mean until you tell him something that he considers unforgivable at a time when you're in a traumatized state, and he tells you you're basically just going to hell. Catholic women have abortions too for instance, can you imagine the compassion and forgiveness captain fucknuts would extend to those women? Suicide figures in the parish would skyrocket.

[Elok]

I've wondered before--who hears the confessions of the confession-hearers?

In Orthodoxy, at least, they have confessors of their own, usually priests from another parish. The real nuisance for us is the priest's family--it's no good expecting a man's wife or son to confess to him. Catholics don't have that issue.

[Hauldren Collider]

Wasn't this an april fools joke?

[Elok]

You're forgetting that a fairly large part of a priests role is supposed to be to show understanding and compassion to people.

We high-church Christians are most fortunate to have you atheists around to remind us of the prerequisites for the priesthood.