Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!mis From: mis@spuxll.UUCP (Meyer Steinberg) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: That I was created a Jew Message-ID: <592@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 13:32:18 EST Article-I.D.: spuxll.592 Posted: Thu Dec 13 13:32:18 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:33:54 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 10 I read in the New York Post yesterday that the Pope issued a thing saying that Catholics should confess to priests and not to Psychologists. The Pope also said that people have to confess to priests and not to God directly. When I read things like this I say "Shlo Asani Goy", the blessing of thanking that I was not created a non-Jew. Can any logical person tell me why a person should confess his sins to another person who ALSO sins, and what is wrong with me talking to G-d straight? I post this in religion.jewish because my intentions are not to convert non-jews, but to make Jews who are "looking at the other sides" think twice.