SilenceInMotion said:
The Church would not be as potent if marriage was allowed among priests. Deacons can marry, but priesthood is basically following in Jesus' footsteps; it is a cut above a normal lifestyle. The church fundamentally deems it 'a more perfect life'.
One can freely choose to serve the Church in a matter which allows marriage, or one can freely choose to be more then a part time worker of Christ.
Every priest finds this to be a blessing, and yet others try to demonize the concept, constantly being snarky torwards the notion of celibacy in that freely chosen lifestyle that they adore and take with all their spirit.
It's stupid- people shouldn't have a problem with it, it's just one in literally a thousand things anti-Catholics throw up in the air. They are more concerned about their own self righteous ideas to the point where even priests themselves are bemused, wondering why one would have a problem with their *freely chosen* lifestyle. *keywords*
Those same people are the one's that move up the ladder and maintain the discipline to others.
I don't disagree, but it become clear that "some" are not [ a cut above a normal lifestyle. The church fundamentally deems it 'a more perfect life'.]
In that they need to be stripped of there man appointed title and robes, something the leadership is sorely lacking in doing. They are not even a cut above the laity in your church structure, to presume they still possess and are preforming
holy duties is mans opinion as well -->> the fruit is proof "rotten figs" not fit to be eaten
Jer 24:3 NKJV
3 Then the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”
And I said, “Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad.”
4 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 “Thus says the Lord,
the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those
who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this
place for
their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. 6 For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull
them down, and I will plant them and not pluck
them up. 7 Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I
am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.
8 ‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord—‘so
will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the residue of
Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of
Egypt. 9 I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for
their harm,
to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. 10 And
I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till
they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”