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Sure, but what I said wasn't that it's a major feature but a key innovation *if* you want to spread w/o violence, appear noncompetitive. I looked it up and celibacy precedes Catholicism (although was made official by Catholics indeed). And 3rd/4th century counts as "early" imo.
Still not a distinguishing feature. Islam has spread without violence in many places & times, and Christianity has spread with violence in many places & times. What's 'key' about it? And that definition of 'early' is post-Constantine, even...
Yes - and thanks for these points! Here was my reasoning (which indeed led to a very eurocentric theory) - celibacy survives into medieval Europe via Eastern/antique examples (prophets, Vespas, etc) as one off in Roman Catholicism (then dominant) - it is costly: uncomfortable 1/
for practitioners, hard to reinforce, may deter talented people from joining, doesn't work when low population and no one to convert etc. - so I looked at circumstance and trade-off: why did it make sense to practice it nevertheless? - came to two possiblities/statements - 2/
was a good way of employing males when no other options? Also: Church itself can work in a more centralised way in a very heterogenous European environment. Also: it is a powerful nonviolent signal when spreading a nonviolent religious ideal. Separate from society - unarmed 3/
and noncompetitive religious stratum - celibacy did become a norm within the religion at a time of its spreading in very violent, low-[property]-law era/place (cf La Flèche etc missionaries much later) So to me looking at it as seemingly illogical nonviolence that still 4/
worked for good reasons made sense. I may be wrong. (NB question re hypothesis could something violent and competitive spread in post-Rome Europe and where would we be now) (NB Protestantism later happened in strong property law era / places; see my later post re Dittmar) End.
(a PS: one other benefit was that single men were as they seem to be now the most mobile -- so when calculating the costs in retrospect the cost efficiency of that has to be taken into account too. How would I spread nonviolent message with little money and no military power...?)
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