just me wrote:I just read today that 69% of priests and 49% of nuns have some kind of sexual relations. Shoot, now I need to go back and read it again.
I just gave this a little thought. Do you think this means that only 69% of priests and 49% of nuns are honest in responding to poll questions?
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
I understand why you speak so blithely about this, but I can assure you that, generally, being contrite and repenting is a much deeper issue than you are representing here.
I'm confident the same is true for my RCC friends.
just me wrote:I just read today that 69% of priests and 49% of nuns have some kind of sexual relations. Shoot, now I need to go back and read it again.
I just gave this a little thought. Do you think this means that only 69% of priests and 49% of nuns are honest in responding to poll questions?
I'm sorry, I got my stat wrong. Here is from the article:
Nuns do a better job of fulfilling their vows of chastity than priests. Baumeister cites a survey of several hundred clergy by Sheila Murphy in which 62% of priests admitted to sexual activity, compared to 49% of nuns.
Notice it says vows of chastity...I do not have any way of knowing if masturbation is included in "sexual activity" or not.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Hoops wrote:I understand why you speak so blithely about this, but I can assure you that, generally, being contrite and repenting is a much deeper issue than you are representing here.
I'm confident the same is true for my RCC friends.
for what it's worth.
I understand why you find repentance a deep issue. Many of the ministers and leaders do not.
Jim Bakker, Jim Jones, Paul Crouch, John Haggee, Ted Haggard, Tony Alamo, Bob Jones, Jim Swaggart... the list goes on (a very long list).
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Quasimodo wrote: Mostly with themselves (which I image they would have to confess and be absolved of). Except, of course, the ones we're hearing about so much in the news lately.
I don't think there are many young males (priests or otherwise) that can go too long without some sort of sex. It's just not healthy.
If you're a priest and having sex with yourself, you should just be able to confess to yourself and then bestow forgiveness on yourself.
just me wrote:I just read today that 69% of priests and 49% of nuns have some kind of sexual relations. Shoot, now I need to go back and read it again.
Quasimodo wrote:I just gave this a little thought. Do you think this means that only 69% of priests and 49% of nuns are honest in responding to poll questions?
just me wrote:I'm sorry, I got my stat wrong. Here is from the article:
Nuns do a better job of fulfilling their vows of chastity than priests. Baumeister cites a survey of several hundred clergy by Sheila Murphy in which 62% of priests admitted to sexual activity, compared to 49% of nuns.
Notice it says vows of chastity...I do not have any way of knowing if masturbation is included in "sexual activity" or not.
sock puppet wrote:so "69" was just a Freudian slip?
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~