Originally Posted by
StackinGreen
You seem like a smart, thoughtful person so I'm a bit dumbfounded why you can't come up with at least a few obvious people who were celibate and not only healthy but enlightened.
The God-Man Jesus Christ is the most obvious example. Others would include intelligent, healthy, and wise people like Buddha and Dalai Lama. Most Saints, particularly the Desert Fathers, but there are many. These include both men and women.
Want a totally secular (known) person (not that he wasn't christian)? Nikola Tesla.
The examples are countless.
Our culture is delusional. Many religions are absolutely delusions. Offshoots of mainstream religions teach bad things, as do some "major" religions.
In summary, we are all living lives of delusion to a certain extent, but some of us realize it and are trying to fight it, and others among us are embracing it.