Need your sins absolved? There’s an app for that! Honestly, terrifying as it is, somebody came up with the idea for confession via iPhone application and put it up for free in the app store. Apparently, all one has to do is enter their sin, and the app tells them the appropriate response. Even though this would make life much easier for a lot of Catholic priests around the country, the Vatican nixed this method of confession before it could even take off… and for the life of me, I do not understand why.
Personally, I very much respect the idea of confession; it forces people to see what they have done and reckon with it (even if the punishment is not always so effective). The important part of confession, in my eyes, is the fact that the person realizes what they have done is wrong and feels remorse for it, God aside. What I do not agree with as far as confession is concerned, is why it needs to be a face-to-face chat that absolves one’s sins. Personally, an application is as good as a guy who is sworn to secrecy.
Oh yeah, the best part of the app… you can track it.
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