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Thread #133740 Message #3037805
Posted By: Arthur_itus
22-Nov-10 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Pope 'condones condom use in some cases
Subject: RE: BS: Pope 'condones condom use in some cases
Quote from Wiki
The words abstinence and celibacy are often used interchangeably, but are different. Sexual abstinence is the absence of intercourse (even for an individual who is married), but celibacy is the avoidance of all forms of sexual activity (including, but not limited to, the state of marriage itself).
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I find it rather strange and unhealthy, to have a group of blokes called preists being celibate and doing it for somebody they have never seen in real life.
"celibacy is the avoidance of all forms of sexual activity"
How many priests out there, can honestly say they have never dealt with an urge in their life.
To be celibate for somebody you have never seen in real life, suggests doctrination of the mind, which to me is scary. By all means follow your belief in a God, but don't doctrinate healthy human beings into being celibate. It's bound to go wrong.
However, I do support people who decide to be celibate, who have made that decision themselves without the intervention of religion or somebody warping their mind.