广义地说，中国人至今也没有理解忏悔，甚至对“忏悔”这两个字的认识也是望文生义的，许多人对这个词的印象是属于宗教的，他们会说“这是一个宗教专用词，好像意思是劝人反省的”。这种“好像”的说法制造了一个误区，即这个词属于宗教，只适用于信教的人们，而对于大多数的 Broadly speaking, Chinese people have not understood confession so far. Even the understanding of the word “repentance” is of a literary sense. Many people have the impression that the word belongs to religion and they would say “this is a religious term, Seems to mean persuading people to reflect on it. ” This “as if” argument creates a myth that the term belongs to religion and applies only to those who believe in religion, and for the majority