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Celibacy is eminently defendible from scripture, despite your silly protests otherwise, it is historical, despite your revisionist history otherwise, and I'll take the guidance of Christ's Church over your fallible doctrines of man any day, thank you.

Yes, celibacy for clergy is defensible on a scriptural basis. But so is marriage for clergy.

Can you be more precise about the "revisionist history" that I'm supposedly writing? Are you saying that Peter wasn't married? Are you saying that other apostles weren't married? Are you saying that celibacy for clergy dates from the early days of the church?

Can you be more precise about the "revisionist history" that I'm supposedly writing

You obviously have not even read the article that began this thread...

celibacy for clergy is defensible on a scriptural basis. But so is marriage for clergy.

Thank you. You've just explained the need for authority in Christianity, to interpret and define the Truth in such seemingly contradictory proof texts.

What a fool Christ must have been to NOT give such authority to His churches, to interpret scripture by the Holy Spirit with binding authority, if I am to believe protestant notions.

If you convince me Christ did not grant such authority, you prove to me Christ was a fool, not God made man, because we can obviously see the fruit of such rejection of the authority Christ willed for His Church in the thousands of warring splinter groups of protestantism. And thus the natural conclusion is agnosticism at best, atheism at worst.