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To: markedman
Wish though you may, you cannot erase a couple of thousand years of well documented European history.

Does the well documented history you refer too involve the celibacy rule coming into existence only in the middle ages as a result of the Church wanting to stop priests from hording wealth and creating dynasties?

20 posted on 10/03/2005 12:02:52 PM PDT by conservonator (Pray for those suffering)
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To: conservonator
"Does the well documented history you refer too involve the celibacy rule coming into existence only in the middle ages as a result of the Church wanting to stop priests from hording wealth and creating dynasties?"

While those issues are _very well documented_ and was the final straw, there were movements back as early as the Council of Trent for celibacy.
22 posted on 10/03/2005 12:05:28 PM PDT by markedman (Islam = surrender, and we will NEVER surrender!)
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