Catholic Church Collapsing
September 9th, 2015 at 7:39:53 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Thanks for actually getting the information correct and providing a crude but correct interpretation of the facts. We are bound by Tradition and the Word of God and neither give us the authority or example to ordain women. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
September 9th, 2015 at 8:49:38 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
The Church thinks it OK to blame god (as usual) for their chauvinistic attitude towards women. Don't you find it odd that so many religions only let the men be in charge? Just like we didn't let women vote till the 20's. God has nothing to do with any of it, men's ego's will fight to the last to keep women from getting equal treatment. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
September 9th, 2015 at 9:42:22 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | There is no doubt that men's ego's and woman's ego's will fight to the last to want special treatment and you are right that God has nothing to do with any of it. However, this issue for woman's ordination is not a case of male egos or unequal treatment of women. Maybe you could advance your argument by demonstrating how not being a priest is keeping women from being treated equally? Remember that having different roles, like a father or a mother, is not discriminatory or setting up inequality. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
September 10th, 2015 at 12:27:15 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | You say:
And then contradict that by saying:
Which is it, make up your mind. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
September 10th, 2015 at 1:01:31 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Maybe you could explain how a woman isn't qualified or biologically capable of being a priest. Is a woman with children not allowed to work either, and the father to stay home instead, since traditionally the mother stays home? "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
September 10th, 2015 at 1:26:26 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
This is a general statement in regards to men and women, basically every human being, often has selfish desires or egos to want special treatment. God instead calls us to serve one another and not to be served.
Now dealing with the specific issue of woman's ordination the teaching is not based on ego or selfishness but historical fact. I'm sorry if that post was sloppily written, but I hope you see now there is no contradiction. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
September 10th, 2015 at 1:34:51 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
Five will get you ten if you get a straight answer from him in under two days. The explanation is simple. They're following the dictates of a small group of men who lived 2,000 years ago in a time and place where women had no power at all, and no authority outside their home. And these men liked it just fine. That's the reason. Anything else you hear concerning the matter is rationalization. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
September 10th, 2015 at 1:35:31 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
A woman is absolutely qualified to be a priest, in fact the greatest human being to ever live, Mary, would have been the greatest priest ever, but she nor any other woman was chosen. There is surely nothing that makes a woman biologically incapable of being a priest. There is however the sacramental nature of the priesthood, which is meant to symbolize and represent another Christ in our world today that makes sense to have a male priest. It really comes down to Scripture and Tradition which clearly show that Jesus choose out of all his disciples 12 men to be Apostles and priests. This practice was maintained unbroken still today in the Catholic Church. Many other denominations recognize the Biblical truth of a male only priesthood. We are following what Jesus did. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
September 10th, 2015 at 3:06:38 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Translation: Jesus lived in a time when women had no rights and were not allowed to hold any positions of responsibility. Even Paul said to keep your women quiet in the Church. Women had no rights, and still don't in the hierarchy of the backward church. "By the time of Jesus, women no longer had the freedoms and status they had enjoyed in the Old Testament era. Jewish society had become very much male-dominated. Women were considered to be inferior beings and were assigned almost the same status as slaves. They were not educated, not allowed to take any leadership roles, and confined to mostly domestic duties." If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
September 10th, 2015 at 7:39:47 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
Yet Jesus chose women to be His disciples, He ate with them, and treated them as equals. They were the first witnesses of the Resurrection something unheard of in the day and held positions of great responsibility. In a special way the greatest among all the disciples was Mary.
Jesus in his ministry went against all of this. He also ate with sinners and tax collectors and honored foreigners, all of which was also taboo for the time. Yet when it came time to pick from the disciples, many men and women, He chose only men. If you can figure out why Jesus was so obviously against the culture of His time's treatment of women yet He only chose men to be His priests you have solved the question the Church has wrestled with for some 2,000 years. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |