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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Hacksaw; wmfights; Forest Keeper; HarleyD; Alex Murphy; Gamecock; ...
1) the Protestant clergy is married, unlike the RCC which demands an unhealthy and unnatural celibacy for its monastic clergy, thereby not only creating deviants, but actually drawing them to its doors.

Weren't the RC priests allowed to marry until around 1050 AD?

2) Protestant churches have a system of checks and balances built within its organization, as Scripture instructs, so that errant clergy are not protected and shuffled from one unsuspecting church to another, but are immediately removed from the pulpit.

The difference between a decentralized structure and a centralized hierarchy.

4,060 posted on 03/15/2008 10:48:21 AM PDT by wmfights (Believe - THE GOSPEL - and be saved)
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To: wmfights
The difference between a decentralized structure and a centralized hierarchy.

If I may...

"The difference between a decentralized structure and a centralized, supposedly-infallible hierarchy.

Yep.

"Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- Lord Acton, proving yet again God has a sense of irony. 8~)

4,063 posted on 03/15/2008 11:18:18 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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