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To: vladimir998

What in the Bible points to not allowing priests to marry? This is not about religion. It is about money.


52 posted on 11/19/2011 6:08:01 AM PST by sakic
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To: sakic

You wrote:

“What in the Bible points to not allowing priests to marry?”

What in the Bible points to having to have explicit verses for this?

“This is not about religion. It is about money.”

No, it is not.


54 posted on 11/19/2011 6:18:58 AM PST by vladimir998 (Public school grads are often too dumb to realize they're dumb)
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To: sakic

Requiring pastoral singlehood isn’t a uniform policy under all the branches of the church that come under Rome’s historic supervision. There are even exceptions in the main Roman Catholic church, as for Episcopal priests that come in married. You seem to be arguing something along the lines that if Roman Catholics had enough married priest candidates to choose from, then those lousy homosexuals would be robbed of all their room to creep in to the ministry. I say that’s hogwash, and it would be hogwash unless scissors were taken to Paul’s comments about the advantages of pastoral singlehood. And I ain’t about to do that to the Bible, and if you are, then scat!


57 posted on 11/19/2011 6:24:28 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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