Protestant

Is there anywhere in the bible that requires the formal act of confession? Can't you just always repent personally? It's not like the omniscient deity can't read your mind.

You gotta declare it, like bankruptcy.
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Yes you can, but how are you supposed to control the minds of an extremely gullible population that way?
No. The repentance of each individual sin is not required either as shown in the Lord's Prayer. "Forgive us our debts/trespasses" shows that we can simply ask God to forgive us in general, although it is good to ask forgiveness for individual sins for our own reflection.
That begs the question of The Bible being the only source of truth and authority, an assertion to which catholics do not acquiesce and a point of contention between them and many protestant sects.
- book of nature wut wut grandeur written all around us etc
Yes, you can repent directly to the lord, but most people can't hear the lord and won't get the benefits of therapy from it, they'll only get the benefits of mindfulness. At a confessional everyone can get the benefits of amateur therapy.
But then the priests don't get to ask kids if they touch themselves

More religious memes! I grew up religious so I have quite a bit of useless knowledge accrued about he various monotheistic religions. Would be nice to put them to use for some meme enjoying

Same, I'm an atheist and I miss reddit's DankChristianMemes, it was so much more entertaining than AthiestMemes
Can you explain that meme to me?
- Basically, catholic church has confessions. Y'know, those booths with the priest and the confessor?
  Luther didn't like that, and a myriad of other things, and decide to make it known. This, more or less, caused Protestantism
- I'm simplifying a lot, but: In the Christian faith, Catholics believe that you have to pray through their saints* (which get their authority from the Catholic church), whereas Protestants believe you can pray directly to god. This concept was put forward by the monk Martin Luther.
  Here a fun video on the subject if you want a crash course: https://piped.video/watch?v=FhGGjRjvq7w
  see correction below: https://lemmy.world/comment/5982141. Saints are still very important to Catholics, though.

Pope is fed up with your bs. Asks you to go take it up with God

There’s a lot about this one I find puzzling.
Making Martin Luther black in a modern setting made me assume it was a reference to Dr. King’s work.
- Not a lot of contemporary photos of Martin Luther looking triumphant.