Is Christian priesthood coerced most often?

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Still in the midnights, during an interrupted sleep, often a nightmare wakes me up sweating, panting and shivering. The scary nightmare is nothing but my priestly training days. The vital years of my adolescent was spent in priesthood training centers, which are called seminaries. I do admit that, even though they feel like spine-chilling forts in scary tales, it was during the seminary life I learned to see the world through a revolutionary outlook. It was the so called training places that flamed the sparks of ambition and determination in me which always helps me to be stone-strong when the storms of troubles hit my life.

There are thousands of priesthood aspirants undergoing rigorous training in numberless seminaries in India. I do dare to ask few questions to the answerable authorities regarding the priesthood training. Is every aspirant called by god, which you call vocation? Isn't the priesthood imposed upon the immature children most often?

I speak on crystal clear bases supported by proven facts, not on mere speculation as religious beliefs often do. The life of a priest begins at the age of fifteen, soon after the school days, for most of the Christian congregations. Some congregations even spread the nets in advance by recruiting children at the age of twelve or thirteen. I do not think that the Christian authorities, right from the 'papal chair', are brainless to believe that a child of twelve or fifteen is grown up and mature enough to take a decision about his life. The greatest stupidity ever happening with priesthood training is that only after entering the fences of a seminary one realises what exactly is priestly life.

I humbly appeal to the church to be truthful enough to concede that, it is not the heavenly inspirations and divine motivations that guide a child to seminaries, but the lavish and trouble-less lives of priests which attracts a child at the ages when his mind is too debilitate to think about the celestial secrets and convoluted theological facts.

Respected 'reverends', your possible answers to my questions have started echoing in my ears now. You may argue that even though a child is brought into seminaries at an early age of fifteen, the doors of seminaries are never kept shut and at any point of time any aspirant is free to move out to the 'worldly life'. Let me for a moment intrude in to your answers. Priesthood is considered as a prestigious profession in India, at least in places like Kerala where Christianity has flourished successfully. If a person quits seminary it is an open question to his behavior and character, even though his action is voluntary. He will be fated to be known as a 'seminary thrown out' all through his life.

Most of the times many of the aspirants hold on to the training and priestly life just because they are left with no options and many of them are not daring enough to withstand the mental troubles they may face in the society and in his family. The increasing population in seminaries not at all is an indication that our generation grow more and more pious day by day, but it just means that recruiters know to throw the hook with the right bait on it to the innocent children.

Priests are no inevitable factors for a person to get devoted to the God. But they are cardinal factors for all the 'cardinals' to rule upon, they are must to have members for the institution of church to impose the imaginary power to the laymen of Christianity. They are also the necessary middle men to drain out the wealth of people to the treasuries of church for the authorities to live luxuriously.

Bible says about priesthood, "But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light". (1 Peter 2: 9) I do agree that there is darkness of sin and ignorance on earth. But who lives in darkness and who in light? Everyone knows the answer, but no one dares to proclaim it.