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To: Legatus
The early church needed men who could concentrate on preaching the Gospel everywhere. Who could travel easily and endure great hardships.

Nowhere are we told this is the preferred life. Christ told us that "from the beginning" God made men and women to marry and have children to populate the earth with men, woman and children who would kneel to none but Christ.

It is Rome's strange predilection that it esteems the monastic life above marriage and family.

And look at the sad and evil consequences of that desire. Over two billion dollars paid out in this country alone in recent years to settle sex abuse crimes committed by thousands of men who consider themselves to be "another Christ;" men who prefer to live without women.

With children, yes. Women, no.

7,156 posted on 09/28/2010 11:38:31 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Legatus

Your posts indicate a lack of knowledge of the contributions of monastics to the development and spread of Christianity. Have you limited your study of the history of Christianity to certain time frames?


7,171 posted on 09/28/2010 12:29:00 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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