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ORIGINAL: DoctorDalai
Celebacy was a poor evolutionary choice, although fortunately for the Catholic world, it wasn’t always practiced, well, religiously.
True, but the absence of male heirs for clergy allowed the early Catholic church to avoid messy inheritance issues when legal systems were pretty rudimentary. As with most bureaucratic organizations, the prime directive was (and is) self-preservation and accumulation of power.
The delusionary nature of religion is nothing new, and is not confined to Catholocism. If you think about it, why would anyone who’s married and raising a family take advice about such matters from a priest who’s never been married, never had kids, and has a higher likelihood of being a closeted homo than the average person?
