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There is a lot of talk in the theologian World today about forgiveness.  Forgiveness of our sins, others who trespass against us, and by the parole board considering what is purported to be Charles Manson's final parole hearing.  There are bad people in this World, and a Hell of a lot more bad than good.  If even the good are condemned to be sinners, then the whole point of this blog is pointless.  The sinners keep sinning, the church keeps on providing cleansing, and the vicious cycle continues on and on.  Sin, Cleanse, Sin, Cleanse over and over and over again, but the irony is that the only thing one has to do in order to be absolved of sin is to profess a love for God, and ask his forgiveness.  No matter what you have done, that forgiveness is considered automatic in some religions usually so long as the money keeps filling up those baskets being passed around.  Just you try and take some money out of those baskets and you will find out just how greedy these cleansers of sin are.  I wish I could tell you about the horror of going to the confessional, but I cannot because I was told by the wasted Priest who heard my last confession to NEVER COME BACK AGAIN!  Although I can assure you that I am about as far away from perfection as anyone can be, yet on my First Holy Communion, the one where there is no partition between you and the Priest, I had nothing to confess.  As unforgivable as it turned out to be, I had to make up things which were not true just so I could make the Priest feel at ease, and avoid any problems.  In my family, your First Confession  supersedes your baptism.  It's a family affair, and that puts a lot of pressure on the confession especially one who doesn't really know right from wrong yet.  What I did know was right was that it was wrong to have hatred in your heart.  People are meant to be loved especially our enemies because who would the lesser be.  I can remember the shudder in the Priests voice after I posed this simple question for which he had no answer then except to never ever walk into a CCD classroom and ask the children if they had any questions about Catholicism.  "If God forgives us for our sins, and we forgive others who sin against us, the why cannot God forgive the Devil?'  It's a conundrum which for myself ended my interest in religion altogether eventually.  What it boils down to is that the Angel cast down from Heaven is not nearly as evil as the Angel who cast him out of Heaven.  Every time you pray to God the Father Almighty, you are praying to the Devil.  A true forgiving God would have forgiven all the sins of his Angels period.   If mainstream religion hasn't been working for you lately, perhaps you should consider praying to a lesser God.  I think you will find, as I have that selling your soul to the Devil isn't nearly as bad as it sounds.  The Devil created you so he already owned you're sorry ass to begin with before you were born.  Embrace temptation (moderately) and you just might find that there is an entire World out there you have yet to discover.  Ahhhh Men.