No, but on the other hand, membership in the priesthood implies a direct responsibility for the wellbeing of those in your pastoral care, and a degree of authority, derived from one's position, which can be abused to do great harm. I'm not really sure what there is about being a freshman at Harvard that merits the same extent of scrutiny.
Yes, I found on youtube now, too late probably , priests/monks that are also scientists and have a better way of talking and focusing on the important things, IMO this kind of true scientist priests could save the church because they can combine them and drop the inaccurate biblical history and focus on the essential part of philosophy.
True. I know a monk who used to be a rock musician, and a few priests who are full of life experience (and a few who led pretty vanilla/strait edge lives). But it varies by religion/order/whatever other criteria you organise them by.
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