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To: PoisedWoman
Are you comparing staying in the Catholic Church to an abusive relationship!?
56 posted on 02/26/2004 12:03:49 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Pyro7480
Are you comparing staying in the Catholic Church to an abusive relationship!?

Yes.

Muslims relegate women to a back room off the main mosque, Catholics are more subtle but the message is similar: women don't count as much as men. Recently, for example, word came down from Rome that altar girls were no longer permissible. Another tiny dagger in my lifelong night of long knives. I'd only considered returning to the church after being touched to the core by seeing devout and lovely little girls serving mass. Maybe the church had a place for me. Quickly disabused (!) of that notion.

Very orthodox Jewish temples pull the same stuff, with women seated away from the main floor. Not a tremendous amount of support (care and feeding of my spirit) for me on the traditional paths, not a tremendous amount of intellectual satisfaction in nontraditional churches. My best bet: charismatic nondenominational churches, where the Holy Spirit thrives and people are free to participate fully.

60 posted on 02/26/2004 12:36:42 PM PST by PoisedWoman (My other tagline is in the shop.)
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