“I would kill the nun or priest who ever come to my sight first” – yelled one of my sweet friends; who I am sure would read this and shoot me off this earth. She had a valid reason to be annoyed with them and I won’t blame her a bit too. There was an incident where a housewife got pregnant while her husband was away for more than an year – something which needs some explanation – which led to the point where the culprit was none other than their parish priest. “Questioning” him further just led to more such findings around that small town. This never became news as the “Church” intervened and covered up the story nicely to have it not come out in the newspapers.
It’s been a hot debate for quite sometime now as whether Christian priests must be allowed to marry or not. Many such recent incidents of sexual harassment / misuse / illegal encounters where priests were actively involved points nowhere else either. I personally never felt that having a wife would ever de-grade the dignity of being a priest or would ever restrict a him from performing his social duties.
Infact, it would make more sense if he preaches us about the married life – if he is married. Because it’s so easy to preach but preaching from one’s own experience would add more value to it. At times when I listen them preaching as to how to lead a peaceful family life, I just couldn’t stop wondering how the hell would he know what is a family life. One might argue that they’ve been taught on this subject for many years, but believe me that would be pretty much same as learning swimming by correspondence course!
Yes I do agree that getting married might never make one less kinky (out of my own personal experience one can say .. ha ha), but at least they don’t hunt down innocent people or kids for God’s sake As they themselves say many a times, they too are humans then why does the Church expect them to behave like an angel? What they do ultimately is to expose their vulnerable side of emotions to the public by giving them more opportunities and expect them to overcome that in a more “angelic” way forgetting the fact that they too are just humans with flesh and blood.
Disclaimer: I never said that all the priests succumb to such scenarios, but would rather put it as 50:50. And its not just about immoral traffic, but anything which a priests are forbidden from doing. Let it be money or power – they are all never meant to be associated with this profession. And I never said that all priests should be married, but if one feels that it’s the only alternative for them not to commit anything illegal or say sin in their vocabulary, why not? After all, eve did eat the forbidden fruit isn’t it ?
It’s been a hot debate for quite sometime now as whether Christian priests must be allowed to marry or not. Many such recent incidents of sexual harassment / misuse / illegal encounters where priests were actively involved points nowhere else either. I personally never felt that having a wife would ever de-grade the dignity of being a priest or would ever restrict a him from performing his social duties.
Infact, it would make more sense if he preaches us about the married life – if he is married. Because it’s so easy to preach but preaching from one’s own experience would add more value to it. At times when I listen them preaching as to how to lead a peaceful family life, I just couldn’t stop wondering how the hell would he know what is a family life. One might argue that they’ve been taught on this subject for many years, but believe me that would be pretty much same as learning swimming by correspondence course!
Yes I do agree that getting married might never make one less kinky (out of my own personal experience one can say .. ha ha), but at least they don’t hunt down innocent people or kids for God’s sake As they themselves say many a times, they too are humans then why does the Church expect them to behave like an angel? What they do ultimately is to expose their vulnerable side of emotions to the public by giving them more opportunities and expect them to overcome that in a more “angelic” way forgetting the fact that they too are just humans with flesh and blood.
Disclaimer: I never said that all the priests succumb to such scenarios, but would rather put it as 50:50. And its not just about immoral traffic, but anything which a priests are forbidden from doing. Let it be money or power – they are all never meant to be associated with this profession. And I never said that all priests should be married, but if one feels that it’s the only alternative for them not to commit anything illegal or say sin in their vocabulary, why not? After all, eve did eat the forbidden fruit isn’t it ?
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