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1. Forbidding marriage
2. Commanding people to abstain from meats
If one wants to be a Roman Catholic priest, then it is part of the job description is to be single and celibate. If one has a problem with that, then maybe the Orthodox or Eastern Catholic Churches would be an answer.
Fasting and abstaining from meat has been part of God's plan for much longer than Christ's sojourn on earth. Fasting helps to clarify the spirit. It teaches you to say NO to little things, like meat, so that when a big temptation comes along, you can say NO to satan. It is that simple.
BTW, even slow and stupid people like myself understand what you mean by "a certain church group." This is unconscionable
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