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Originally Posted by Adam
I don't blame my bishop, I blame the system. I agree that there are good reasons for confidentiality--mainly to encourage people to unburden themselves via a secret confession they wouldn't make publicly.
But you trade the secret confessions for Zion IMHO. A community can't be of one heart and one mind while keeping struggles secret from everyone but the bishop.
Isn't this price too high? Obviously the current church hierarchy doesn't think so.
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I disagree.
A person struggles first privately before he burdens another. It is one's moral duty to anguish before sharing the anguish. And to anguish as few persons as possible.
So in a way, it is more noble NOT to share and to retain the confidentiality.