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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Stick with what you want. I don't care what you believe. Believe anything you want.

All Faith and Moral dictum's In the Church have a Biblical basis. They are very much explained and laid out on the Internet at Catholic Answers and other Orthodox Websites. The Church has no problem explaining them to whomever cares to ask and do a little research. I am not the Church and care not to discuss them.

Not all traditions of the Church are Dogma.

As per celibacy it has never been a Dogma of the Church it is simply a tradition. Nobody denies that.Most of the apostles where married. Many of the popes where married and many of the priests where married until the 12th Century. It is a relatively recent tradition that Latin Rite priests are always celibate. Or at least take vows of celibacy. It is only 800 years old tradition. Where as the Church is over 2,000 years old.

As far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned it is obviously a genuine religion with well over 1.3 Billion adherents to the Roman Rite alone and several tens of millions more to the other Roman aligned Churches.

Perhaps it is your particular religion that is Whole Cloth horse crap.

Either way I don't much care about your opinion as it is worthless to me. I don't give a crap about it and never will.

96 posted on 03/31/2014 12:17:07 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Figures you would resort to ad hominen attack rather defending your position.

Fact is since priests in the Bible were in fact married men as were the early popes, bishops, and priests for more than 10 centuries after the Church was established, one could plausibly argue that a married priesthood IS the tradition of the Church. Mandatory clerical celibacy was not instutionalized until well into the Middle Ages.

Fact is the Church enforced mandated clerical celibacy primarily to combat corruption within the Church, especially nepotism and the transfer of Church property.

Sorry to annoy you with the facts.


102 posted on 03/31/2014 12:30:55 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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