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If Catholic priests remain celibate & don't breed does this improve the human gene pool?

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  1. No, it does not improve the gene pool.

    Ironically, it's the immoral self-important "know-better-than-God" types who are sleeping around and contributing more to the gene pool than they would probably have done so if they lived by Catholic morals. The point is, it's THOSE types who are NOT doing a service for the human gene pool.


  2. Many priests live morally chaste lives, but a large number do not. According to the 1992 Britannica Book of the Year, “the Roman Catholic Church was reported to have paid out $300 million to settle cases of clergy sexual abuse.” Later, the 1994 edition said: “The death of a number of clergy from AIDS brought visibility to the presence of g*y priests and observations that there were an inordinate number of . . . g**s drawn to the priesthood.” No wonder the Bible states that “forbidding to marry” is a ‘teaching of demons.’ (1 Timothy 4:1-3) “In the view of some historians,” writes Peter de Rosa in his book Vicars of Christ, “[priestly celibacy] has probably done more harm to morals than any other institution in the West, including prostitution. . . . [It] has been more often than not a stain on the name of Christianity. . . . Enforced celibacy has always led to hypocrisy in the ranks of the clergy. . . . A priest can fall a thousand times but he is forbidden by canon law to marry once.”

  3. Yep, it helps by reducing the number of Catholics in the world who believe that God doesn't want them reproducing in the first place. Religion needs badly to be left behind....

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  5. It has no effect on the gene pool, positive or negative.

    Those are dudes who, if they hadn't gone into Semenary, would not have ended up breeding anyway.

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