[Aliska]

I am stating some truths opinions about sexism in the cChurch that evidently some of you don't want to hear agree with.

That's your reality. It's not mine. You only want to put me down. You have offered nothing to lift me up. And you would expect me to go to men like you for spiritual answers. I don't think so. I'll find my own. It won't be from someone who sounds like you sound.

[SoothingDave]

You only want to put me down. You have offered nothing to lift me up.

Maybe it's not about you. When God created the world, do you think He designed things so that they would create the most misery for you?

Did He make a mistake? Is His Church wrong?

Is "lifting you up" synonymous with all of us men admitting we are just full of it and really just like male priests because it helps us subjegate women? Should we crawl to you and apologize and start ordaining women immediately?

Would that lift you up? Would you smile?

SD

[ArrogantBustard]

There is only one reality. It is neither yours, nor mine; it is God's. We all have to deal with it the way it is, not the way we want it to be.

Correcting a misstatement isn't putting someone down, it's correcting a misstatement.

You, for example, seem to think that the male Priesthood is evidence of sexism in the Church. I think it is God's Will, in accord with the way in which He created us male and female.

That's not putting you down, nor is it refusing to hear you. It is disagreeing with you.

[BlackElk]

There is one reality. That would be objective reality, comforting or not.

[Aquinasfan]

You have offered nothing to lift me up.

Do you hear yourself?