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To: gusty

I’ve got an idea. Don’t become a priest if you don’t want to be celibate.

Some people have a vocation for celibacy. Human beings have free will and are meant to use control over their senses and not run after every single object that they happen to desire. If you don’t want to become a celibate priest or monk, no one is forcing you. And no one is forcing the men who join the priesthood or monasteries, or women who become nuns.

It’s a voluntary austerity they take to serve God. And it is common in other religions as well, as a way to sacrifice for God. If others want to do it, why do you object? It’s all voluntary.


29 posted on 05/17/2011 9:51:42 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah
You are going to need interrogators from Gitmo to separate the good from the bad at the seminaries.
34 posted on 05/17/2011 9:59:51 PM PDT by gusty
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To: little jeremiah

Why do I object. Personally it doesn’t effect me. I’m not Catholic. I am looking at it from a systems point of view. The way it is set up will lead to abuses. It is a symbiosis of celibacy colliding with homosexuality. Do not put your head in the sand, believe me a large segment of the American public equate Catholic priests and pedophiles together. Be honest, how many jokes have you heard like that. Many if your are honest. The jokes would not be funny unless there was some truth to them.


40 posted on 05/17/2011 10:11:15 PM PDT by gusty
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