Posted on 01/22/2025 8:56:38 PM PST by Morgana
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The debate over whether women should be allowed as pastors has been settled once and for all, thanks to the heroic efforts of the National Cathedral's lady Bishop Mariann Budde.
The Episcopal woman smiled ear-to-ear as she strode out of the National Cathedral, knowing that she had proved to the world beyond a shadow of a doubt that only men should be pastors.
"I did it!" exclaimed Budde, proudly hugging supporters. "I finally showed all you morons out there precisely why women should never, ever be allowed to lead a church. Did you see everyone's faces in the congregation? Oh man, I just owned so many mainline denomination chumps, and all on national television. Amazing."
After 70 years of attempting to make lady pastors a thing, progressive denominations across the globe admitted the experiment was over. "Welp, this was a mistake," admitted Anglican bishop Reginald Donaldson. "Bishop Budde showed the world why the church's stance for the first 1,950 years of existence was the correct one. If you watch her even for a minute, you will walk away knowing that only men should lead a church. It was the most compelling argument I've ever heard."
At publishing time, the Episcopal Church had defended itself by stating that they honestly thought this whole time that Bishop Budde was a dude.
Oh, hell yeah, I read half of it before I figured it was The Bee.
Awesome.
Women will tend to favour whom they perceive as the strong horse. That is why we need men who are unyielding.
1 Corinthians 14:33-35
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
The idiot should apologize to the families of the people killed by the schizoid transgender murderer in Tennessee.
Kids were killed by the “pastors” heroes.
She ought to go to their graves and weep bitterly. What a tone deaf jinny-a55. Trump should go to the graves and give a press conference.
Women are not to be leaders in the Church and her emotional rant shows why. Did she mention Laken Riley?
When Elisabeth Elliot took our pulpit one Sunday, she noted that she routinely refused churches' requests that she preach, because of the Biblical admonition against women preaching; but she had accepted our invitation because we invited her to speak instead.
I was several sentences in then realized something was odd. Yup, the Bee got me. LOL But this is close to home true.
I thought the Bee was supposed to be satire? Way to accurate for that.
My question is: how did her rude confrontation compare to other similar rude confrontations to past Presidents? And that pretty much makes the point.
I am about to turn 68, thank you, thank you very much! and the only similar confrontation I can recall is Earth Kitt at the White House making some pointed antiwar remarks in the 1960’s. And I do not think that President Johnson was present at that event, rather it was Lady Bird Johnson who bore the brunt when Kitt showed her ass, figuratively. I don’t think it helped Kitt’s career, but it may have been hard to tell at that point.
The President and his family graced her church and she was incredibly rude. On behalf of the people who voted for DJT, allow me to say f*** y** and the horse your rode in on!
“And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”
That’s why I don’t let my wife go to any Bible studies or potlucks or anything else at church. Sunday mornings only. I do let her sing the hymns though. But not the liturgical responses.
As a woman, I agree women should not be pastors. First because the pastor is a symbol of Christ to the church or Bride of Christ. Second because scripture said so. Paul didn’t dislike or discriminate against women. He praised women deacons in the church and expressed deep appreciation for several. I think also there were cultural situations happening. Jewish men were educated from earliest childhood in the OT scriptures, women were not, but all of a sudden the women were worshipping a Messiah who did not differentiate between male and female. This is my own thought on this, but I would bet in this newfound freedom they were suddenly able to speak up when they never could before. Chaos and confusion probably ensued. Obviously Jesus had women in His entourage and Paul was on more than one occasion very complimentary towards women in the church.
Just my two cents worth.
Not only has the Bee gotten more brutal the last few days, it has shown that the left will NEVER not be a source of something to make satire over.
LBJ and Lady Bird deserved everything they had coming to them.
In a Christian church- I agree that men are the natural representatives of Christ. Women have a place in service to the Body of Christ in many ways, just not as preachers.
As I read Scripture, the issue is a woman’s vulnerability, or susceptibility, to being deceived, not necessarily the matter of level of Scriptural knowledge.
And you’re right that it doesn’t mean that women have no position or role to play in churches. There was Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven, who had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.
And Even Peter quotes in Acts 2:17-12 that passage in Joel where it says.....
“And in the last days it shall be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams;
even on my male servants and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.”
So there’s place for women ministering and functioning in the church, no doubt, but NOT being a pastor.
Great post!
I agree with that. Women tend to be more openly passionate and emotional. I am on a committee at my church which so far consists of all women. I have expressed to the pastor a need to have men on the committee. In my experience, women can spend five minutes talking about what a man can say in a few sentences. Men tend to cut to the chase. Oh boy, I bet I just set off a debate here!
there are verses preachers avoid. If I stepped outside and read aloud from leviticus, the police would come. The verses regarding women and preaching/teaching are another. People will say- “oh, Paul was a misogynist “, but God trusted Paul so much that He allowed Paul to write about half of the New testament. Paul was a genius. So no, he wasn’t wrong about women. But good luck mentioning that these days in the era of Wonder Woman girl-boss you can do everything a man can do time
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