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To: dangus

See post 280#...Interesting.


281 posted on 01/08/2012 8:59:38 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

I picked one of them to double-check because I was familiar with where he was ordained...Bartholomew Brewer. I quickly found a longer story which apparently was the source.

I’d say simply that this Bartholomew Brewer fell.

For the entire first section, and the start of the 2nd, he writes of the priesthood as something he loved, and was very happy in. Then he fell in love with a school girl in a barrio. He writes like someone with a definitely disordered sexuality: “Until then my life had been almost exclusively among men. I enjoyed watching the girls giggle as they flirted with teasing boys. After a while, though, my attention was drawn to one of the more diligent students, who thoroughly captivated my interest. This young lady was mature beyond her years because of the responsibilities that had fallen to her after her mother had died. She was lovely and shyly responded as we stole moments talking alone after class.”

He did NOT confess this apparently, because his bishop found out the wrong way. He was disciplined, and shipped out. He eventually questioned celibacy, left the priesthood, and became a member of the 7th-Day Adventists, a restorationist denomination, famous for spawning numerous anti-Christ cults and the laughably silly writings of its founder, Ellen Gould White, a Millerite whose whoppers make Joseph Smith sound like Abraham Lincoln.


284 posted on 01/08/2012 9:36:30 PM PST by dangus
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