u/Imstillsohungry

I grew up very Catholic and am an atheist now, but I was just thinking of how fucking crazy it was that when I was around 11 or 12, I literally got sat down by my parents and was forced to write down on a piece of notebook paper every sin I had ever committed in my life in order to tell the priest at my first confession. I had to confess extremely personal things like masturbation (which mind you is completely normal) and self harm and intrusive thoughts to a 60 year old man and was so uncomfortable the entire time. I wish I could go back to that confession room and say I’m actually NOT sorry and I don’t want any forgiveness for any of these things 😭