Catholic Church Approves iOS Confession App

What happens if Anonymous gets into their servers or WikiLeaks gets this info?!
It'll be the end of their lives!

Forgive me father, for i have sinned.
What is the penance for using Windows???

As if confession to your iPhone is crazier than other aspects of Christianity or any religion. Talking snakes, rib-women, Jesus riding dinosaurs... sorry but the iConfession fits perfectly.

Sinned recently? There's an app for that.

if the talking snake was a naga i would totaly join their cult... i love nagas

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Can i say NUTS!. dear iphone i have sinned, what is your sin my son.. used an android device and pc freely as i wanted...

killerclick 02/10/2011 9:59 AM
.As if confession to your iPhone is crazier than other aspects of Christianity or any religion. Talking snakes, rib-women, Jesus riding dinosaurs... sorry but the iConfession fits perfectly

You are perfectly free to believe or not in any higher power. But if you dismiss the vast majority of the world who do believe as if they are fools, like you did in your post, you come off as an arrogant ass that no one will respect. This article is about this particular iPhone App. It is not an open invitation for elitists to denegrate the majority of their fellow members of the human race because they don't believe the same way you think they should.

So, I guess that's reserved for the Christian and Catholic churches....who thinks anyone that doesn't follow their flavor of religion is going to hell.

Some athiests have chosen said path because they're tired of listening to the same old bullshit of how everyone is going to hell. The irony of it all.....how many priests/pastors have been found to be child molesters so far?...And the church continues to protect them.... Why honor an institution that condones child molestation?

@glennster
It's not simply an act of "dismissing" every other religious person in the world as foolish. Atheist believe that religion is a form of a cultural meme that was passed down from generation and perpetuated by some form of memic evolution. Most likely the only reason that you belong to the religion that you do is because your parents were of that same religion, so they indoctrinated you in that same faith. By the way, just because many people in the world believe in some form of religion, that does not make it true. At one point in time, it was a agreed upon by almost everyone that the Earth was flat and that the planets revolved around the Earth instead of the Sun. Humans will always have the propensity to be fooled.

Also, I don't think that it is a good idea to smack atheist for voicing their opinions in public, when it is the Christian lobby that has been forcing its believe system down the throats of many Americans. Whether it be teaching of Creationism in public schools, the outlawing of abortion and sodomy, or the understated "requirement" that an elected official be of some faith in order to be electable.

I was remarking on killerclick's off-topic attack on religion on this comment thread about this story, not on his right to believe what he believes, or to say what he says.

And equating teaching Creationism in schools to the abortion debate just shows how prejudiced you are against people of faith and their views. Try thinking critically on each topic at hand, without just jumping on the talking points from either side. Abortion after stops a beating heart if done later than ~ 23 days after conception. That's a medical fact. You can argue the value of that beating heart, but you cannot dispute the facts and be taken seriously.

As far as the whole Christianity vs Atheist discussion... Believe whatever you want. As far as religion goes in the U.S., you're still free to make whatever choice fits your fancy. The only thing I can't stand is when either side yells, screams, and insults to try to force their opinion on someone else.

I do find it oddly amusing that the Catholic Church is now charging $1.99 for a pre-confession app. Because according to my bible, Christ already paid the price for my sins. Forgiveness is free... someone should really tell them.

Good to see the Church trying to move WITH the technology instead of burning IT people.

Took them a little while, but kudos non the less... I guess...

Cheers!

Hmmm, if I don't believe what Christians believe I'm going to Hell to be raped by demons forever... but I should still have respect for their beliefs? Why?

Oh, they would still love to burn people and books they disagree with but they lost that power, at least in the Civilized World.

"You are perfectly free to believe or not in any higher power. But if you dismiss the vast majority of the world who do believe as if they are fools, like you did in your post, you come off as an arrogant ass that no one will respect. "

Why is there this incessant need to "respect" another's faith? I certainly will "respect" your right to believe in whatever the hell you want, but what makes you think that one must "respect" your beliefs? Respect and revere another's blind faith? I think not.

Who cares about a beating heart? Its just a pump, full of blood, that move more blood, and it is really dark in there. You can have a beating working heart and be dead. There are thousands of people right now who have perfectly good working hearts and are dead. Plus, are you even remotely suggesting that a 23 day old mass of cells that resembles a tape worm is a human being? Did you know that half of 23 day old fetuses are never born due to miscarriage?

That is why brain death is now the standard to claim who is alive and who is not alive (dead). When people say they died and came back, they are being dishonest, when your heart stops, you are not dead, when your brain dies from lack of oxygen, you are dead, permanently, no coming back. No one has come back from brain death to date.

You also know what else is a fact? The brain is the most important part of the body. Every other organ is secondary to the brain. Without a brain, you are not a human being. Screw the heart, it is only there to keep my brain alive. Screw my sexual organs, their only purpose is to make more brains. Brains = human beings. Not hearts, not lungs, not skin, not livers, or any other part of the body.

Sorry but atheists are annoying in how proud they are about not believing in anything. You don't have to believe what I believe, and I don't think you'll go to Hell for that as long as you live a good life. It just annoys me how a someone brings up the fact that the atheists here immediately start bashing Christianity (or any religion for that matter), then the atheists get pissed and claim they are being threatened with eternal damnation and being "raped by demons." Atheists are children; They don't like religion because it tells them no.

lol! its an endless loop between that app and an iphone....you can wash away your sins but as soon as you close the app you've already sinned again!!!

Crazy!!

It's not about bashing religion, as an athiest and a being of concious mind, I simply don't find I need to follow a written book to fulfil or govern my life. Instinctively I know right from wrong, thats the purpose of having good parents to teach you to the point where your able to make your own decisions in life. No one knows for certain and probably never will if god or gods exist until the point after death and no one has returned to life after being brain dead to tell us otherwise. Science can explain most things, but in my opinion will have create difficulty if not imposibility in proving whether or not god created the universe and everything in it. The universe, the mind and human beings are all made of the same atomic matter and elements, for scientists to think out of the box and find out what was there before the creation of the universe and time will be a nigh on impossibility, because our very knowledge of science is based on the physical and what exists today.

Does this come with an achievement system?

This app is a good idea, but nothing special.

I wonder if Apple would approve a Satanist app.

Your right, I am prejudiced against my tax money being spent in schools so that children can be taught an ancient Hebrew myth on the same level of legitimacy as Darwin's natural selection and the Big Bang Theory. You want me to think critically of each topic. OK.

Creationism (Intelligent Design): the theory that an intelligent designer created everything that we see today, including the universe and all its inhabitants. Most children are taught that things we observe, such as a hammer, are designed with a purpose (to drive in nails.) This assignment of purpose to a design is something that works for man-made objects, but do not hold up to the complexities of life. Extending this illusion that something was "made" so that it could fill a "role" does not explain half the things we see (what are black holes made for? What are tornadoes made for? What is electricity made for? In addition, if you wanted to extend this assignment of purpose to everything, you would eventually have to work your way to God itself. You would have to say that God was designed so that he could design everything else. But that then begs the question, what designed God?

Abortion: Just because I am pro-choice doesn't mean that I would let everyone have an abortion just because they feel like it. When you talk of abortion, you have to be aware that there is a struggle between the rights of the unborn and the rights of the mother. Roe v. Wade affirmed that an unborn fetus is guaranteed constitutional rights. But they also said that the issue of abortion lies within the realm of "privacy" in which the government can not interfere unless either's rights are being violated (same goes for marriage, domestic abuse would warrant intervention.) If a consensual pregnancy were to take an unexpected turn for the worst and it was likely that the health of the fetus would affect the health of the mother, you have to decide whose rights take precedence in this case, no matter which side you argue. If your pro-life, then you say that the fetus' rights are more important and that you do not have the ability to infringe those rights to abort it. However, I believe that the rights of the mother take precedence when her life is threatened by the health of the fetus. Also, in the case of rape and incest, you must be truly Christian if you believe that someone should shoulder the burden of a pregnancy that they themselves never agreed to.

Is that enough thinking for you?

bwahahahahah. +1 good sir.

Why is it acceptable now to use man-made objects when everything about Christianity is so against "free will"? Applying the same logic, couldn't I just also say "what is atheism made for" without demonizing people? This baffles my mind.

I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to say, but I will try my best to respond. The notion that you can trace the existence of a supernatural deity by saying that he was necessary to create everything is self-defeating and false. That's why it would be wrong to ask "what is _____ made for?" since it assumes that everything needs a creator. I'm not sure what you were trying to get at when you questioned using "man-made objects" when "everything about Christianity is so against 'free will.'" Maybe you can clarify that for me.

I was just commenting on the fact that Christians often demonized everything we take for granted today. Things like astronomy, chemistry, and rock music (Christian rock?).

In my view, religion does good things for people, but I just don't think it's necessary to love one another without having "faith" in a supernatural deity.

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." -Karl Marx

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