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[Serious] For former Christians only, why did you leave your faith?
RE: For former Christians only, why did you leave your faith?
(December 17, 2022 at 7:25 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote:
(December 16, 2022 at 11:34 pm)Objectivist Wrote: It's terrible to think how many lives have been destroyed.  What do you think causes it, the rules about celibacy?  I mean sex is an important part of human life and to deny that must be part of the reason there is so much of that going on.
Lots of people go without sex - pedophilia isn't a side effect.  I think they had a preexisting condition.  It may be that people with a deeply internalized shame, and an appropriately thematic world view, are compelled to become priests.  To square things with the almighty, as it were.

That makes the most sense.  There's also the fact that they are in positions of authority and can somewhat control them to keep them quiet.
"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture,  an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads."

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
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RE: For former Christians only, why did you leave your faith? - by Objectivist - December 17, 2022 at 2:14 pm

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