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Sid, you're reading something into the Scriptures that is NOT there....the very charge your ilk makes against Catholics.



2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 is pretty clear that Paul and the Thessalonians were looking for an imminent rapture and second coming.



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Even so, you're reasoning for the single life being the better choice works since EVERY generation for 2000+ years now thought they were the ones to see the 2nd Coming of Christ.



Paul also said this:

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:9 (New American Standard Bible)


Looking as something like 20K American priests who have left to marry since VII [I personally know 2],

. . .the homosexual subculture of the priesthood,

. . . being seen as a gay occupation,

. . . and the crisis of vocations. . .



. . . like Dr. Phil asks:


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. .. and how is that working for you?

I would rather be honestly blunt than diplomatically untruthful.