To: kawaii
Yes and ours do. Yes. It is interesting that the East allow their priests to marry and the west does not.
To: HarleyD; kawaii
Which makes you wonder if the east considers their priests to be “another Christ.”
8,621 posted on
10/09/2007 4:29:26 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: HarleyD
Yes. It is interesting that the East allow their priests to marry and the west does not.
I don't see how this is interesting so much as typical. The Latins split with the Christian church in 1054 (on paper) though in practice earlier; the remaining 4 Sees (including Antioch Jersualem and Alexandria mentioned much in the New Testament) remained together.
The latin church had invented a bunch of strange new stuff; and in the 15th century protestants followed suit inventing even more.
8,651 posted on
10/10/2007 4:41:02 AM PDT by
kawaii
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