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Only 16 months ago, Britain was rocked by a Sunday Pictorial story that began with the words, "I, Donald Hume, do here by confess . . ." The lurid confession was that Hume had hacked to pieces a car dealer named Stanley Setty -a murder that in two separate trials the Crown had never been able to prove. Convicted only of dumping Setty's dismembered body from a hired airplane, Hume got off with a mere eight years as an accessory. Upon his release, secure in the knowledge that he could never be retried for the murder, he sold his gaudy story...
...obvious (which is probably why Hollywood has never attempted to make a movie of it), but the play was more than a mere social pamphlet. It centered on the moral struggle of its farmer-hero John Proctor, who, accused of "consorting with the Devil," chooses to die rather than confess to a crime he has not committed...
Without doubt, wrote Martin Luther, ";confession of sins is necessary, and in accordance with the divine commandments" But Luther was dead set against the Roman Catholic obligation to confess before receiving Communion. Confession, he felt, should be voluntary, and Christians must be clear that their absolution comes only from God; otherwise, he argued, confession becomes an instrument of oppression in the hands of the church. Luther's own formula for absolution: "Dost thou believe that my forgiveness is God's forgiveness?" (Penitent answers yes). "As thou believest, so shall it come to pass. By command of our Lord...
...else for our innocent," a line of the Duchesse de Guermantes in Remembrance. The laconic Dreyfus was credited with two apocryphal lines, "I've never had a moment's peace since I left Devil's Island," and "Shut up, all of you, or I'll confess...
...next three months he will awaken at 4 a.m., spend mornings begging food, afternoons in meditation. He will try to observe 228 commandments and confess each failure, no matter how small (example: inadvertently killing an insect). And when the 90 days are over, he will return to his worldly occupation -respected and, he hopes, revitalized for the daily toil in the world of appearances...