Clergy-penitent privilege -in my HO- is basically a sicko form of get off that clergy use pleasure themselves with.
I was born into a catholic family but gave up going to confession by the time I was 15. I gave up the Catholic faith by 19 . And ran into JW’s by the time I was 24. Lol yes from the frying pan into the fire!
In all that time I could never figure out why a
man need “confess” his so called wrongdoings to another human when an all omnipotent “god” could “see” and “hear” everything on his supercomputer brain!! Never did confess to anyone about anything ever since, unless a
few close friends spoke
about mutual stuff. At this point of time none of those so called sins seem to be faults at all but a part of human nature growing up.
Back to the point . JW elders, priests , Oprah and others like them- again in my opinion -are sickos who derive sick pleasure in listening to - and causing them to relive their nightmares again- other people’s in the guise of helping them. Things that should be left to qualified psychologists and others in the medical field.
U.S government should ban all such “privileges” and have people receive psychiatric help where needed.