re: #270 mmmirele

I know. But celibacy was held up as an ideal before it was enforced and simply doing away with priestly marriage didn’t stop the number of kids being born to the local priest’s woman. Or to the Borgias.

Obviously, at no point on time were women consulted on any of this. Instead it was imposed on us.

Celibacy makes a useful political position for the church since beyond a minor sinecure for their bastards it prevents church leaders from opting to pass on wealth or property to their offspring instead of keeping it all within The Church itself.