God told His people to be fruitful and multiply, now if this celibacy was practiced universally in a short time there would be no people.
I was baptized and confirmed Catholic, AS A CHILD, with no real choice (as are most people of most religions, I suspect.) As an adult, I question the process and validity. Surely God doesn't punish little children souls for sins they didn't understand, yet how will he value faith based on rote and ignorance ?
And just who in the H-!! are you to judge anyone's faith as based solely on rote and ignorance???
The most ignorant posters I've ever seen on Free Republic are the anti-Catholic bigots, who simply regurgitate the same old BS and misinterpretation of scripture and revisionist history time after time after time. Frankly, the bigots make asses of themselves in their ignorance of Catholic teaching and historical, apostolic Christian understanding of scripture.