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To: Vaquero

You wrote:

“celebacy in the priesthood does not go back to the beginnings of the church by any stretch.”

Yes, it does.

Jesus, first and ONLY High Priest of Christianity was celibate.


12 posted on 01/28/2011 11:02:34 AM PST by vladimir998 (Copts, Nazis, Franks and Beans - what a public school education puts in your head.)
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To: vladimir998
Jesus, first and ONLY High Priest of Christianity was celibate.

and if everyone was like Jesus....the world would be a better place...but we are HUMAN....with all the wonders of being human as endowed by our creator....better to use that equipment in marriage for love and procreation than in the abomination that a few priests have taken it to.

18 posted on 01/29/2011 5:06:42 AM PST by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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