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There is more abuse in Protestant churches than throughout Catholicism.

Hahahahahaaaaa! I guess that makes everything OK with you, then? /sarcasm

Denying a man the right to marry, and readily accepting closet or open homosexuals into your "priesthood" is an abomination to God. Paul and Peter make it clear again and again, that God's intention is not to have a group of men set aside with special recognition, but that we are ALL priests, and that the leadership in the church should consist of MARRIED men who are able to control their own household.

One can post all the cult's liturgy, myths, and fables, but cannot overcome the Word of God. We do not eat bread for salvation, nor do we have any reason to stay single to be local leaders. There is no Pope in Christianity. It's like teats on a boar hog! Peter makes it clear who is the Rock!

1 Peter 2: 1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

4 As you come to him, the living Stone- rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him- 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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1 Timothy 3: 3 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. 5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)