Unlikely: a priest is an itermediate, as writen by Thomas D'Aquin: he prays with (for) you or gives you guidance the way the Church tells him, towards an higher ideal that is not human intuition or arrogance; he doesn't tell you this or that is a sin or rule society. Priest were responsible for education as a charitable organisation of literates, as writing was for religious purposes to begin with.Malebranche would have told me in the confessional that it's a sin to doubt God. — Gregory
But even when I'm a materialist I still believe in mortal and venial sins. — Gregory
I did propose a biological interpretation of phenomena but I don't know if its a priori or a posteriori. — Gregory
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