Posted on 03/30/2015 2:08:07 PM PDT by NYer
Someone was joking recently that the reason the Eastern Orthodox cannot have women bishops is because one can’t call a woman “Patriarch.” Behind the wisecrack is some wisdom, and the existence of women ministers in non-Catholic denominations raises the question of just how patriarchal the Christian religion must be.
Is it necessary to call priests “Father” and refer to the Pope as “Holy Father”? The title “Abbot” comes from the ancient term “Abba-Father,” and “pope” comes from the Greek word pappas — “daddy.” Are these no more than human traditions? Are these just social constructs? Or is the idea of “Father Knows Best” woven inextricably into the Catholic faith?
Modernists would argue that all gender identities are inventions from social circumstances. In other words, what we call a “man” or a “woman” is defined by learned customs and conventional traditions. A little girl is given a doll, a play kitchen and fashion cutouts so she learns to do girly things and identify as a woman. A boy is given guns and soldiers, trucks, cars and footballs so he learns to identify as a man.
If gender is learned from society, the modernist contends, male and female family roles are similarly learned. Back in the day, a young man learned that he should go to work and support his family; the young woman learned that she should stay home, have babies and make sure the pot roast was ready for the man of the house when he walked through the door, hung his hat on the rack and called out, “Honey, I’m home!”
Because these roles are no more than social customs, the gender relativist argues, they can be dispensed with. New roles can be devised and learned, and the oppressive, old roles can be discarded.
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I can only hope.
Form your own religion.
"The example of Katharine Jefferts Schori — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America — should be a caution. Faced with rebellion in the ranks because of the Episcopal Church’s espousal of radical causes, Schori has muscled in to depose more than 700 priests and 12 bishops. She has instigated lawsuits against rebellious congregations, spent millions of dollars on legal fees and grabbed buildings and assets from local congregations, forcing them out of their historic churches. Mothers, it seems, can be just as aggressive, unforgiving and tyrannical as fathers."
She is an utter, total, complete disaster..
But clearly, Katherine Jefferts Schori cannot be the husband of any number of wives ... indeed she cannot be a husband at all. By definition.
It’s in the Bible. We don’t get to pick what we want tossed out and can disregard. It is what it is, if you can’t stand it, then Christ is not within you.
“the existence of women ministers in non-Catholic denominations raises the question of just how patriarchal the Christian religion must be.”
The existence of women ministers is un-Biblical- 1st Corinthians 14:34.
Gender is for words, masculine, feminine, and neuter and how they are used. Sex refers to male and female. Gender does NOT refer to what is between the legs of men and women and thus is not legitimate for those who want to destroy the differences between men and women and their biological roles.
This is G-F’s hobby horse topic.
Bingo!
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