If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.