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Hydra

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6. Not really

Reply to cantbeserious (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 10:41 AM

Nov 2015

They should just do away with the no sex requirement and allow their priests to marry...and, gasp! Allow women to be priests!

The gullible just lap that stuff up though. My grandparents fell to the RW and churchiness, and all they could talk about is how holy the "celibate" people were.

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