Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Jesus Married?

This has been one of the religious aspects that has bugged me for years.  Why is it a problem if Jesus was married?  Who cares?  In fact, I read an article somewhere that for his time period, it would be unusual if he WASN'T married.  And that would have been remarked upon.

The GMA/Yahoo! article I linked to above says that priests are celibate because Jesus wasn't married.  I always thought it was because Paul said that priests should be celibate.  Which is why celibacy never made any sense to me.  But I digress. . . I was brought up Christian, and even went to Catholic school for a while.  But somehow, some of the major tenets of the faith just didn't make it into my brain correctly.  I'm not sure why.

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