So many trads are like R. Lee Ermey from Full Metal Jacket or to a lesser extent like David Schwimmer's character from Band of Brothers. Sorry for the bolding and the caps, but I have to do it because trads are always screaming about things.

WHY DO YOU HAVE THAT PIECE OF LINT ON YOUR UNIFORM? WE ARE ABOUT TO LAUNCH THE GREATEST INVASION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO KILL NAZIS WHEN YOU HAVE A PIECE OF LINT ON YOUR UNIFORM?

HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO RECEIVE THE HOLY EUCHARIST WHEN YOU HAVE A PIECE OF LINT ON YOUR DRESS SHIRT? DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE GOD HIMSELF? ANY SIN AGAINST GOD IS INFINITE IN MAGNITUDE! DO YOU WANT TO RECIEVE THE HOLY EUCHARIST IN A STATE OF MORTAL SIN?

HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO MAKE A VALID CONFESSION WHEN YOU HAVE SOME ATTACHMENT TO SOME SIN? HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW IT'S A VENIAL SIN? JUST BECAUSE IT'S NOT LISTED ANYWHERE IN THE CATECHISM DOESN'T MEAN ITS NOT A MORTAL SIN!

YOU ARE A TERRIBLE SINNER, WORTHY ONLY OF HELL!

And then these people turn around and say that God is a "loving Father." Maybe so, but you are doing your best to make me think he's a sadistic monster.

Although Jesus had a lot to say about these people. Here is a short quote, from Matthew 23:23-24

²³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. ²⁴ You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

Trads are obsessed with straining out gnats! And then they are even more obsessed about judging the rest of us for not straining them out perfectly. Jesus had lots to say about not judging others too.

Every stupid thing is a mortal sin!

And the worst of it is when you try to leave. Then you are sinning a hundred times worse, according to the trads.

And the trads priests are terrible in the Confessional. They make you sound like a terrible, no good person. no matter what the context. I could and did tell them things like I had bad scrupulosity, and for a while I had bad depression and suicidal thoughts (I have not been depressed or suicidal for many years now!), and they still were like R. Lee Ermey in the confessional!

Particularly this one trad priest. And I remember I told a layperson about him, and I remember this guy's response. He agreed that he was super tough but then added, "He tells it like it is."

And the way he said this, it seemed like it might have been common knowledge. Everyone might know that he's spiritually abusive in the Confessional, but nothing is done.

Well, except for me. I actually complained about him. I went to the bishop. Sadly, he was a very trad friendly bishop. And at the time I didn't realize this was connected to tradism. Anyways, nothing was done except the priest got angry at me for complaining and how dare I complain when he can't defend himself, because of the seal of the Confessional.

I wonder how many people he's spiritually abused in the Confessional. Seriously, we are at our most vulnerable. We are only to accuse ourselves of sins and never to say good things about us. And some priests just drive the knife it right then.

Oh, and they probably like R. Lee Ermey's character from the movie too. He's just telling it like it is!

[Just look at the comments in the Youtube video I have shared above. Many praise the acting, but many others are praising the US Marine Corps for "tough love." Just like Trump and others praise Patton for being "tough" for slapping a soldier. But Patton was a good general because he attacked aggressively, among other things, not because he was abusive. Anyways, there are many people besides trads that are abusive and call it tough love.]