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struggle4progress

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Thu Apr-22-10 12:16 PM
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3. That view, of course, is part of the Protestant reformation -- but the ancient Catholic idea

has enough merit that it continues to reappear in new guises, such as the psychoanalytic "talking cure." Being a Protestant, I've never gone to a confessional booth, but the old bromide that "confession is good for the soul" may have some real content -- even if one has no religious convictions and doesn't believe in an "eternal soul," ancient personal little dirty secrets might sometimes be corrosive, and one might perhaps get some relief by expressing them to a sympathetic listener

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