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To: Campion
I have no idea why Catholics are so enamored with celibacy. It's one of the many strange things they do that has no scriptural basis.

I guess your "scriptures" exclude 1 Corinthians chapter 7 ?

The Catholic Church has made a LAW that its PRIESTS cannot MARRY, but must remain CELIBATE. The Bible clearly says that "forbidding to marry" is a false teaching and even a "doctrine of devils"!--1Timothy 4:1-3; Genesis 2:18; 1Corinthians 7:9. The priests in the Old Testament--even those who entered into the HOLIEST OF HOLIES in the Temple--were allowed to marry. Even PETER, whom Catholics consider to be the first POPE, was MARRIED!--Matthew 8:14; 1Corinthians 9:5. As it now stands, the Church's teaching on celibacy has driven many priests into God-cursed sodomy, or homosexuality!

Something I found with a quick internet search. You can't just take one verse out of context. The Bible as a whole has to be considered.

55 posted on 10/07/2005 10:18:27 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (Everyone should have a subject they are ignorant about. I choose professional corporate sports.)
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To: AlaskaErik
the Church's teaching on celibacy has driven many priests into God-cursed sodomy, or homosexuality!

That's crap. It's maybe driven plenty to have affairs, even forsake their orders, but if they weren't homos before they started, celibacy didn't make them so.

61 posted on 10/07/2005 10:28:05 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Sheep are very intelligent. They know they need the Shepherd.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Have you read St. Paul? If you have, you know what you speak is poppycock.


166 posted on 10/07/2005 7:27:15 PM PDT by The Cuban
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