To: CynicalBear
Well, it IS a voluntary thing. If you don't want to be celibate, you don't choose a celibate vocation.
That's pretty obvious, isn't it?
60 posted on
07/13/2014 12:52:54 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Most of us know more from being old, than from being told.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Does this solution involve a meat cleaver?
63 posted on
07/13/2014 12:58:23 PM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Mrs. Don-o
64 posted on
07/13/2014 1:05:04 PM PDT by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
To: Mrs. Don-o; CynicalBear
Well, it IS a voluntary thing. If you don't want to be celibate, you don't choose a celibate vocation.In the bible it tells us that people have different gifts, different callings...You have any scripture that tells us only single, celibate men are called to the ministry??? So your religion can reject a person who has been called by God to the ministry??? It's not your religion that hands out the gifts...
66 posted on
07/13/2014 1:13:20 PM PDT by
Iscool
To: Mrs. Don-o
Well, it IS a voluntary thing. If you don't want to be celibate, you don't choose a celibate vocation. That's just rationalization.
There is no choice about the vow of celibacy for someone who is a priest. It's imposed on those who would choose the priesthood.
Choosing the priesthood is voluntary. The celibacy attached to it is not. If someone has to fore go the priesthood because of the celibacy rule, that celibacy is not voluntary.
Matter of fact, if it's a rule, it's not voluntary.
93 posted on
07/13/2014 1:57:53 PM PDT by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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