Catholic bishops urged to review celibacy rules amid shortage of priests in the UK

[Patrick]

could you imagine if you were a catholic priest and then the pope suddenly said that you can get married and fuck like normal people?

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=sgman91;52171287]Probably because there's absolutely zero Biblical reasons to force church leaders to be celibate. Even Peter, the so called first pope, was married in the Bible.

Of course, there's also no Biblical reasons to have priests. So I'm not sure if that fact is very important.[/QUOTE]

the whole celibacy partly stems from the mideval days when the church was a frat house for nobility's spare children.

[Archangel125]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52176820]His wiki says he was executed for believing in multiple words with multiple people and other religious related stuff, but nothing about the earth going around the sun?

Edit:

Execution-wise, I mean. Not that he didn't believe the earth revolved around the sun.[/QUOTE]

Well, he was executed for daring to suggest that the Earth wasn't the centre of the universe - that the planets revolved around the sun, that the stars in the sky were other suns, that they had planets of their own too, and that those planets might harbour life similar to Earth's.

This was an idea that was horrifying to the Church and a threat to their power. Because if Earth was not the only place in the universe with life, was not the center of the universe, what made Humans special? How did anyone know they were God's chosen? How could they prove that Jesus was really divinity and not merely another man?

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=archangel125;52180689]Well, he was executed for daring to suggest that the Earth wasn't the centre of the universe - that the planets revolved around the sun, that the stars in the sky were other suns, that they had planets of their own too, and that those planets might harbour life similar to Earth's.[/quote]

you do realise that loads of other philosophers talked about the same thing but didn't get into trouble (many of them were clergymen)?

in fact it wasn't a new or particularly novel idea at the time. the idea "that the planets revolved around the sun" wasn't heresy in the year 1600, nor could you get into deep shit for saying it

[quote]This was an idea that was horrifying to the Church and a threat to their power. Because if Earth was not the only place in the universe with life, was not the center of the universe, what made Humans special? How did anyone know they were God's chosen? How could they prove that Jesus was really divinity and not merely another man?[/QUOTE]

don't talk about of your ass about things of which you know nothing. astronomical theory had nothing to do with the divinity of jesus. the thing that the church considered a threat to their power at the time wasn't an astromoner talking about heliocentrism, it was the holy roman emperor or king of france getting pissed off and sending an army to rome (or antipopes and martin luthers)

what the church got pissed off about was when people said things contrary to scripture (especially in the politically charged environment of the reformation) without any evidence to back them up - this is why Galileo got into trouble, he was a shitty scientist who couldn't find the evidence to support his theories nor make a convincing argument for why he should teach it in university when he couldn't prove his pet theory (which turned out to be wrong anyways)