(Der Frühling zum Sommer um Tokyo)The Wife of a Priest
(L'épouse d'un prêtre)
A priest is not allowed to marry a beautiful woman.
When young men see that the wife of a priest is beautiful, they will envy the priest and decide to get a beautiful wife each for themselves.
Then, young men will compete in getting a beautiful girl. Young girls will also compete in making themselves look beautiful.
This situation will be inevitably accompanied with or trigger off violence, betrayal, slanders, frauds and plots, various crimes and troubles, damages and injuries physically and psychologically, and apathy to losers.
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If the wife of a priest is not beautiful, young men will not envy the priest consciously or unconsciously.
They will not think it is a shame not to marry a beautiful woman.
American priests conspicuously showing their wives, if truly beautiful or mistakenly thought to be based on each couple's biased aesthetics, are all wrong.
They are actually tempting young people into wrongdoing, since young men will think that they have to be rich and successful to get a beautiful wife, so that they must be tough enough to carry out wrongdoings and get cruel to losers.
This explains most of troubles caused by young men in America.
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In this context, true Catholic clergies and Muslims as well as true Buddhist priests are better than American priests conspicuously showing their wives, if truly beautiful or mistakenly thought to be based on each couple's biased aesthetics, to public.
Unless their wives are less beautiful than yours, you should not go to their churches, since they are doing what Jesus Christ carefully avoided in order not to lead young people to a criminal world.
A priest should marry a woman least attractive in his community so as not to make anybody commit a sin of envy, at least.
(In principle, a Pope's wife should be the least attractive in this world.)
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American priests should learn that everything causing an emotion of jealousy in the minds of others is so sinful and thus is to be rejected in Heaven.
Therefore, having a wonderful wife, a wonderful income, and a wonderful title would lead an American priest, without doubt, to the hell.
(I am not a priest. I am not an American priest, just like Jesus Christ was not. Anyway, remember that Jesus Christ never praised any woman for her beauty.
Yet, if an American priest chooses to fight for this cause, he must show his wife to God or Allah; we will see how he will be praised due to his wife.)
Teaching for October:
Mar 10:1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
Mar 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
Mar 10:3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
Mar 10:4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
Mar 10:5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Mar 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Mar 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Mar 10:8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Mar 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
(to be continued)