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help you to be independent of them.
And if we can teach independence and freedom to people, all fictions in religion will disappear.
I have heard ...
One rabbi and one Christian bishop were very friendly. They used to go to the golf course together. They had made arrangements for the coming Sunday, but the bishop said, "There is one difficulty. If many more people come for confession I will be late. I will do it as quick as possible; you wait just in front of the church."
The rabbi was waiting and waiting and waiting, and it was getting late. Finally he got out of his car and went from the back door into the church to the confessional booth, where the bishop was listening to the confessions of people, and giving them punishments.
The rabbi said, "We are getting late, and there is a long queue; it won't be finished by the evening. So I propose one thing: just let me see how the confession is being done. You do just two cases, and then you go and get ready, and I will finish this whole lot within minutes!"
The bishop said, "That's great!" -- so he showed him how.
One person said, "I have committed a rape."
The bishop said, "Ten dollars in the charity box, and five Hail Marys."
The rabbi said, "That's enough! You go and get ready" -- and he sat in the bishop's chair.
There is a curtain and a small window so the identity of the person is not known, only the voice is heard.
Another man came, and he said, "I too have committed a rape."
The rabbi said, "Twenty dollars into the charity box, and five Hail Marys."
The man said, "The rates have gone higher within seconds! I heard ... just now you have told the other person to give only ten dollars and five Hail Marys, and suddenly you are telling me twenty dollars?"
The rabbi said, "Don't be worried, my son. Ten dollars are in advance. You can commit one rape more, no need to confess. I am in a hurry, just pass on." And he finished the whole queue within minutes. He did not hear what they were saying; he said, "I already know. Rape, theft, murder -- what else can you do? So just name the crime, don't describe it to me, don't go
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