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Celibacy must be maintained because without it priests will pass along church property and fiefs to their sons, and heck, we can't totally prove celibacy correlates with weirdos since we have too little data. Great , solid arguments for celibacy. Are there any good arguments for priestly celibacy?
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computer parts posted:The argument for celibacy is that it's what exists now. The discussion is whether celibacy encourages child abuse or if it's a non-correlated figure. If the former, then yes you should campaign against celibacy. If the latter, there's no reason why someone should care, really. Limits talent, directly impedes the priestly mission of counseling by limiting priestly experience with both relationships and families, and celibacy in the 21st century is weird and therefore stands to reason will attract disproportionately high weirdos (not just pedophiles). There's plenty of concrete downsides and no upsides except "it's been like this for centuries" when most of those centuries it had at least one upside - preventing priestly dynasties. That is no longer a concern in most of the world. As for the thread point, even if it's not proven that celibacy correlates with pedophilia, it's not proven it doesn't. It's basically a "who knows" data wise, and intuitively it makes a lot of sense that people not interested in adult relationships might tend toward pedophilia. And that's just the molesters themselves, how much has the celibacy requirement attracted a group that didn't report or covered up molesters.
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