How are the demonic images of the modern world not torture?
Monasticism and why is it considered good
Isaac Ortiz
Nathaniel Nelson
Compared to this?
en.wikipedia.org
Yeah, you tell me.
Anthony Davis
prove it. how can one be "anti-celibacy" without being anti-Christ? not even going into what St. Paul said, either.
Gabriel Bell
Citations please!
There is no way those pagan barbarians have anything on transexualism, and the disgusting levels of hedonism and fornication that we are witnessing today.
Even they had standards!
Too bad we lost them today and out only standard is "satisfy muh desires nao!"
Chase Mitchell
Like the user above me said, "prove it".
As for why they weren't monastic, you apparently haven't read much of this thread. The reason they weren't monastic is because many of them were martyrs. All monasticism was was a later period when martyrdom was more a thing of the past, and some people felt it was wrong to participate in society suddenly. They honored the ante-nicene martyrs by practicing a form of martyrdom in their own lives, as best they could.
Aaron Roberts
The laity being disappointed by how rigidly hierarchical and lucrative the Sacerdot business had become and decided holiness can be decided by them.
IMO no matter how simple and true these laymen are, they will still remain that, laymen not officiated in the authority of the church.
Blake Ramirez
Many Protestants have great respect for the monastic tradition and visit monasteries all the time. It's just that they didn't have a clue about it a few decades ago and to some of them it still looks "exotic"
Ryder Martin
Levi James