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To: OLD REGGIE
You couldn't be suggesting that the celibate Priest should be castrated????

RC apologists seem to think Christ was advocating castration and eunuchs.

Christ was sympathetic to those who had been born deformed or who were castrated for whatever foul reasons.

But He certainly wasn't advocating the practice.

Rome has always had a strange and perverse conception of human sexuality. Christians believe the body is good because God made our bodies and gave us life in those bodies. And from those bodies God creates new life. One day we will even be re-united to our glorified bodies.

God does not want us in self-inflicted pain, such as JPII regularly flogging himself with a leather belt.

God wants us in joy.

7,704 posted on 09/29/2010 7:25:00 PM 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; OLD REGGIE; wmfights; RnMomof7
Christ was sympathetic to those who had been born deformed or who were castrated for whatever foul reasons.

This goes back to the OT law that men born or injured with certain conditions could not hold the priesthood. Sometimes, like lepers and prostitutes, the official religion was unaccepting of them. The social outcasts were the people he went among and preached to.

7,794 posted on 09/30/2010 9:53:15 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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