By Chief Ugwokeh Nnaemeka (+2348067876251)
Good
afternoon, esteemed friends and Happy Sunday. You are welcome to the second
segment of today's edition of the Sunday Special with the Celebrity
Businessman.
I
stopped confessing my sins to reverend fathers for a good number of reasons. Before
I go into that, let me explain how confession commenced. Confession was
introduced as a ploy by certain ancient Roman masters to know who, among their
servants, were thieves.
The
servants were made to believe that to ensure their continuous stay in their
masters' houses, they must always be pure through confessing their sins to God
through their masters. As empty as the servants were, they believed and kept on
going for confessions and receiving sacraments of penance. That's was how the
masters knew who did what and how among the servants.
Seeing
themselves as the masters and the laity as servants, leaders of the Catholic
church adopted the confession and Sacrament of penance. You must confess your
$ins to a priest at most two weeks before receiving holy communion.
In so
many contemporary Catholic parishes, priests also use also confession to know
the characters of their parishioners. With it, the parish priests know
parishioners in laity councils, parish councils and different committees who
must not be trusted. Although the priests are not supposed to see the faces of
the confessors during confession, but they recognize their voices.
From
childhood, I have always questioned the rationale behind confessing my $ins to
my fellow human beings in the name of confessing to God. Does it imply that
those priests are representatives of God?
At the
age of 10, I graduated from catechism classes and became qualified to receive Holy
Communion, but had to go for confession as one of the prerequisites. I
continued until I became an adult and I stopped after careful evaluations.
Which sins
do I even commit? I don't kill, I don't sleep with married women, I don't
terminate pregnancies, I don't divert public funds, I don't convert money meant
for church project into personal use. So, what am I even confessing? The
priests that people confess to are neck-deep into the sins mentioned above. In
spite of taking the oath of celibacy, so many of them have children with
different women, both married and unmarried.
In the
year 2021, I happened to be very close to a certain yoruba priest, by dint of
my position as the secretary of some committees in the parish. I had access to
some documents in the parish. I discovered that the Mushin tout, who calls
himself a priest, was paying married graduates working full time in the parish
the sum of N25,000 per month as salary, claiming that the parish was new and
had no money. I had to confirm this from
one of the workers.
However,
the priest was diverting offerings, tithes, donations and so many other inflow
into bankrolling his girlfriend's post-graduate studies and lavish lifestyle. As
blatant as he was, he was sending his girlfriend on errand to his bedroom, in
my presence. His girlfriend seemed to know even where he kept his dirty undies.
I can give so many other instances. So, why should I continue to confess my own
small sins to these terrible people? However, there are still very few of them
who are exceptionally good.
Another
reason why I stopped going for confession is because of the spiritual law that
says that whatever you sow, you must reap. It is called the law of karma. Whatever
you do, whether good or bad, must come back to you, either in this incarnation
or subsequent ones, whether you go for confession or not.
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have any question, whatsapp me on: +2348067876251.
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