Jesus chose all men as his disciples.
That’s a very weak argument. Jesus chose only Jewish men to be his disciples, would you say that only Jewish men can be ordained as priests? Jesus did choose women, many of them and he taught them and treated them as equals. He couldn’t allow them to become disciples because of attitudes towards women at that time, it would seriously hinder his mission as men would have been outraged that women, “second class citizens”, dared to try to teach them anything. If you read the New Testament, when Jesus was crucified the only followers who stayed at the foot of his cross were women when all the other disciples had scarpered, they stayed even though the punishment could have been death. Jesus allowed women to fund his mission, he compared God to a woman baking bread, he healed women and brought them back from the dead.
One could argue that the first
Apostle was a woman, when Jesus rose from the dead the first person he came to was Mary Magdalene, he told her to spread the word of that he had risen. Why did Jesus reveal himself to a woman first?
I personally feel that God made us all equally in his own image, he loves us all equally, so I don’t see why a woman who wants to serve God cannot become a priest and help spread the word of God? Especially since there is a shortage of priests at the moment. There is evidence in the early Church of Female priests, bishops, deconesses and even the legend that is Pope Joan.
When women one day decided that they wanted independance and didn’t want to get married and be second to a man, they decided to stay consecrated Virgins. St Augustine and other church leaders saw this and they were afraid so they said it goes against nature and brought out strict rules for the woman who chooses to be a consecrated virgin and there you have it, a Nun!
If a woman was ordained I would rejoice knowing that the Church has finally accepted us all as neither man nor woman but human beings. I do not believe in gender roles.
Just because women can’t do everything that men can do
I’m sorry but you sound very sexist and sound like you’ve just stepped out of the 19th century. In todays world women are doctors, educators, politicians, leaders. If women can be responsible for lives, for the ruling of whole countries, why can they not be priests?
Oh wait I’m sorry, we’re all silly little girls, God doesn’t think enough of us to trust us with his word and we’re not important enough.
I think we should stop listening to most of the theologians of the past, I mean Thomas Aquinas said women were imperfect and were only produced in the womb as a result of a “southerley wind”, I kid you not. Girls, we are a result of weather pollution! St Augustine couldn’t even stay in the same room as a woman without thinking about how much he wanted to have sex with her, even his own sister for goodness sake. Both of them are mysoginists, you only have to read their work to realise this. To think these two
men formed the theories about sexual morality and a womans place that are part of the Church’s teaching today makes me so angry.
Quite apart from the implicit contradiction, it posits that Jesus Christ, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, was constrained in his decisions about choosing his apostles.
Please actually bother to pick up a history book and read about how women were treated at that time and draw up your own conclusions about what would have happened to a woman who dared to try and talk about God in front of a man.
