Online Private Confession

[Lamb]

If your pastor offered private confession/absolution by way of a video call, would you do it?

 

[tango]

I don't see the need for a private confession online or offline, but there's no way I'd do it online. You never know what digital trails you're leaving these days.

In a private setting with the pastor your level of trust is that the pastor won't repeat what you said, and isn't recording it. The trust is in the pastor. In an online setting you also have to trust that the connection is secure, that no other devices are listening in, that nothing is being logged etc. It's all but inconceivable that none of the servers between your computer and the pastor's computer are keeping logs.

 

[Forgiven1]

If I couldn't get together with him, then yes I would.

 

[Bluezone777]

In today's age, there is no real privacy anymore. A person can claim it's private but chose to secretly record what you said. It doesn't even have to be the guy you are talking to as he could be legit and honest about his intentions but have someone close to him who might chose to record what was said without you or your pastor's knowledge for less than honorable reasons of their own.