radwriter0555
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Mon Apr-04-05 05:05 PM
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8. The origins of banning marriage among priests |
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lies within the power of the church itself.
The church was using marriage to acquire property; so at some point, some politician somewhere made the church ban priests from marrying so that it couldn't use marriage to acquire property.
That's the ultra simple story... there is more complexity to it than that, but that sums it up.
Priests being unable to marry had nothing to do with any piety or sanctity, it was about PROPERTY LAW AND ACQUISITION.
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