Speculation: most (but certainly not all) secular therapy is less helpful to people than the confessional, in large part because secular therapists aren’t in the business of offering absolution & often explicitly say sohttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1028454455056818177 …
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Hm. Is that good or bad though? Probably depends on the actions being absolved. Is this absolution why such harmful behaviors/bad actors persist in religious systems like the Catholic Church?
Yes, I think so. But on the other side, you have a lot of people saying that what they want is empowerment when what they really need is reassurance and acceptance. Empowerment is too scary. It’s tough to juggle.
