I am a woman and know very well God gave women very special gifts that he did not give to men. Women do contribute to the church. Why does a women have to be in charge in order to be validated? Why do we have to compete with men to have value?
Women are the heart of the church, and that is what we are created to be. Look at the women in the Bible, they were the some of the best examples of holiness. They never deserted Jesus when the men did. Yet they were not chosen as apostles. Why? Because women and men have a different calling. And one is not better than the other. We have been brain washed by society that in order to have value one must be in seats of power and control.
Do you think more souls have been won by sitting thru meetings, deciding liturgical issues, financial issues ect or by deep prayer and fasting, by kindness and serving the poor and those in need -which both religious and lay women have been doing since the beginning of the church. What is more important to God?
Well put, rayne.
I’d put a thumbs-down (mentally) for those who
appear to be judging women as being inferior or oppressed simply because they don’t fulfill a specific role in the church. Not every man is a priest–does that make the non-priests inferior? Hardly. Society today seems to be demanding that we all be “leaders”, and that nobody should have to be a “follower”, as though “following” were shameful. Men and women are not “equal” in the sense that posters like patg seem to have put upon equality today–in fact, no people would be “equal” in that sense. Has anyone ever read the short story “Harrison Bergeron” where, in order that all people be made absolutely equal, any talent, any gift, any beauty in a given individual had to be nullified, so that absolutely no one could be “better” than anyone else?
What men and women are would be considered “complementary”. Where they are “equal” in the dictionary sense of equal, where indeed all people are “equal” in the dictionary sense, is in their
souls, because souls are where we have the essence of our nature as “images” of God. As a woman, I’ll never be “a man”. And I’m not “like a man”, or “good as a man” (or even “bad as a man”), or “interchangeable with a man”. And that doesn’t make me inferior, or men superior, because we have different genders and different aspects and
different roles to play in our Christian journey as opposed to our “wordly” journey. To think that, because of whatever “historical oppression”, “culture/ tradition”, or even “scientific wisdom” did to
some persons at
some time period at
some place is directly related to
Christian teaching regarding male priesthood is a false and treacherous argument that attempts a gender warfare iconoclasty rather than the spurious “equality” it prates of.
It’s yet another attempt, IMO, to make God
not our Father or Creator, but first an “equal” whom** we** are actually “Helping” to be God, and then later not even necessarily equal, but something we once “created”
ourselves, but now that we know better (being at once so equal and so brilliant as to come up with these vast improvements on God’s patriarchy), not needed at all. 10 commandments? Hierarchy? How could or should
we, those perfectly equal, perfectly rational, perfectly wonderful humans, need them? We know so much better, don’t we?
