So dad goes away for a few hours and leaves you in charge of the house. He tells you not to have friends over. It’s not that it’s bad to have friends over. It’s not that it’s immoral to have friends over. Maybe you don’t completely understand *why* he doesn’t want you to. But it doesn’t matter either way. Those are the instructions dad left you, so that’s what you do.
There were plenty of pagan priestesses around in the first century—and after first few years of Christianity the bulk of converts were from paganism. If there were meant to be women priests in the Catholic Church, it would have happened rather easily and seamlessly. But it didn’t. It doesn’t even seem to have been a controversy of any note.
And your “sexual organ” comment falsely implies that the *only* difference between men and women is a genital one. There isn’t a sane person on earth who believes that.
I said it was “odd”. Based on your analogy in which “maybe you don’t completely understand...”, a lot of Catholics (and I AM one) think it’s odd.
No, I did not falsely imply in any way that the sexual organ was the only difference between men and women. I implied that is was a basic criteria for eligibility, which it is.
At any rate, the world certainly had a backward view of women two thousand years ago (and the Middle East STILL does). It is not unreasonable to assume the frail humans in charge of church structure and assembly of the holy scripture allowed this to color their judgment.