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OK SO I AM SO LOST WHEN IT COMES TO THE CATHOLIC RELIGION. I WAS TALKING WITH THIS ONE GIRL WHO SAYS SHE IS CATHOLIC. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SOME ROUGH THINGS THAT SHE WAS DEALING WITH I HER LIFE AND I WAS USING BIBLE VERSES TO HELP HER THROUGH IT. SOMEWHERE IN OUR CONVERSATION PRAYING TO THE SAINTS CAME UP. AND I BROUGHT UP THE BIBLE VERSE WHERE JESUS SAYS THAT HE IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIGHT AND THAT NO ONE GOES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH HIM. AND I TOLD HER THAT I DID NOT UNDRSTAND WHY CATHOLIC SEEM TO PRAY TO EVERYBODY EXCEPT JESUS(SAINTS, THE VIRGIN MARY,ECT.) OBVIOUSLY I DON'T MEAN THAT CATHOLICS DO NOT PRAY TO JESUS I JUST UNDERSTAND WHY THEY GO THROUGH ALL THE MIDDLE PEOPLE. AND WHEN I ASKED THIS GIRL I WAS TALKING TO ABOUT THE SAINTS SHE SAID THAT THE SAINTS ARE PRECIOUS PEOPLE, THAT THEY ARE SOME HOW FAVORED MORE THAN YOU OR ME AND THAT I SHOULD JUST READ THE STORIES ABOUT THE SAINTS. AND THEN WE INTO A COFFESION AND BROUGH UP HOW JESUS DESTROYED AND REBUILT THE TEMPLE IN 3 DAYS AND SHE SAYS SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHY THEY(CATHOLICS) GO TO CONFESSION THEY JUST DO. NOW I REALIZE THAT THIS GIRL IS LOST BECAUSE THE WHOLE TIME SHE IS CURSING UP A STORM AND GRANTED WE BOTH WERE GETTING HEATED BUT I COULD SEE THAT SHE DID NOT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WAS REQUIRED FOR THE CONVERSATION. SO MY QUESTION IS WHAT ARE THE PURPOSE OF SAINTS, WHY DO CATHOLICS GO TO CONFESSION, OH AND WAS I WRONG FOR TELLING THIS GIRL THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS BEEN HISTORICALLY KNOWN TO BE BE CURROPT AND ALSON KNOWN TO BE MURDERS. I AM SO CONFUSED