UNFAIR TO OPPOSE WOMAN CLERGY EVEN IF JESUS DID
Despite the fact that Jesus used only males as preachers and exorcists and the intimate circle was made up of twelve men opposition to females as clergy is sexist. Also, the Jews could have ordained women for the Saturday service was quite simple. If they thought women should not preach they could have got the scholars to write the sermons for them. There was nothing in Jewish scripture about rules for ministers. They were really just religious educators like the mother at home. Jesus did not advise that women be appointed despite being a Jewish minister himself.
Organised religion is not just religion. It is a business. It is a political engager. So in secular terms it is discrimination.
Many Christian Churches continue to cling steadfastly to the old-fashioned
notion that women are not for ordination as deacons, priests and bishops. This
is what the Roman Catholic Church does and many Protestant Churches that don’t
believe in priests are hostile to ordaining women ministers.
Some women argue that they have a right to be ordained. This is bad theology for
ordination is a grace and grace is undeserved, something to which we have no
right. The Church insists that nobody at all has a right to be ordained for all
the blessings received from God are undeserved and it is the blood of Jesus that
takes away sin and makes you clean. If you are forgiven by God, it is not
because you deserve it. So nothing from God comes as a right so the Church
argues from that that women cannot complain if Jesus does not want them as
priests. Everything comes from the generosity of God. So though the Church
refuses to admit it, God is more generous to men then than women! The Church may
say he gives other blessings to women in its place that make up for it. But no
two people are blessed alike. One woman may be a very good person and have a
mediocre and unlucky life while a nasty lady can have a better life. Life has
let the good woman down but God may have blessings he would like to give her but
other things get in the way. But nothing can stop him from giving the grace of
the sacrament of order so there is no excuse. To say God does not ordain women
because women have no right to be ordained is the exact same as saying that God
has no right to ordain a woman though she would make a great priest meaning he
has no right to have this great priest. Plus even if you sin and you cannot get
rid of the sin except a blood sacrifice like Jesus dies for your sin to earn you
the possibility that God will restore your good relationship with him it is not
your fault that you could not get rid of the sin so you would have the right to
blessings from God. You would have the right to be ordained if you have the
basic qualities that are required. Bad theology as always then makes good
commonsense. Not ordaining women implies that women have no rights. No matter
how bad you have been in the past, to say you have no right to a grace that will
help you make others and yourself live holy lives is wholly contradictory.
Everybody has a right to be helped to become a better person and the sacraments
of the Catholic Church deny that by pretending to be free gifts from God that
are not and cannot be earned.
When ordained, despite all the Church says, there is no denying that a man
ceases to be equal in value to other people but becomes a superior being. When
that is seen, it becomes totally clear that to deny the priesthood to women is
to deny that women are equal to men. It even denies that men who are not
ordained are as valuable as men who are.
The Church will say that priests are treated with greater respect than ordinary
people but they are not better than they are. Don’t be taken in by this. They
are trying to prevent you from seeing the snobbery of clericalism and
priestcraft. It is a mistake to imagine that saying all people are considered
equal makes this clericalism all right. It is how people are treated that really
matters. There is no point in saying people are equal if some are going to be
treated like they were gods. People who are treated as gods have no problem
saying that all are equal for it makes no difference to them. They wouldn’t mind
if people believed that people who were richer than them or smarter were better
as human beings than they were as long as they got keeping their golden egg. So
bragging about recognising the equality of all people achieves nothing.
We live in a world that treats people better the higher their position in
society. That is the way things are. But God has no need to limit the power to
change bread and wine into Jesus and to forgive sins to priests. Why does God
restrict this power to validly ordained priests? The Church might reply that the
reason for the limitation is to protect unity and solidarity with the papacy and
the bishops. In other words, having officials with authority is better for the
power of the Church. If that is the reason, then why didn't God make a rule that
the congregation can turn the bread and wine into Christ along with the priest
instead of the priest doing it for them? That would serve the alleged purpose
better!
Laypeople should be able to absolve sins under certain conditions. The absurd
limitation of this power to the priest definitely makes the priest out to be a
god or a human being that God regards as more valuable than a layman. In this
light, women must be the inferior sex when ordination even just to absolve is
not an option for them. In this light, it is better for twenty good men to be
put to death when it is the only way to avoid the death of a priest for the
priest is more valuable. It is the priest’s duty to consent to such things.
Another thing is this. When laymen cannot forgive sins which is the most
important job there is and since the priest can it follows that where priests
are scarce it is better for a whole village to give its life for the life of the
priest. That women cannot have this prestige is a further indication that they
are not human beings but semi-humans.
Is it rational to say that women can’t be priests because their bodies aren’t
male?
That is like saying that people will a different skin colour from yours
shouldn’t be allowed to be secretaries. That is not a reason. There is no reason
why women cannot serve as priests. If they can do the job then why not?
It is blasphemous to suggest that God wills women to stay out of the priesthood
because they are women and then to criticise anyone who says that a man should
not wash clothes for that is a woman’s role. It is not right to impose roles on
people that they might not have. If women can do the job of being priests then
it is sexism to use the role excuse to say they cannot be ordained. The Church
says would be discrimination to forbid women priests if God allowed them but he
does not. This is a sexist suggestion for what is to stop people from thinking
that women have no role or vocation from God to be teachers? It is illegal to
say women should not be teachers so it should be the same to say that they
cannot be priests. It is sexist to say that God determines what woman can or
cannot do and not her nature. I repeat, a woman’s nature can enable her to serve
as a priest therefore God is discriminating against her and so is the Church by
suggesting otherwise.
It is blasphemous to reason that it is sinful to make a woman a priest. That
reasoning is accusing God of condemning as wrong what cannot be wrong. Not
everybody that is made a priest is called to be a priest though they think they
are so you cannot say it is a sin for women are not called for that is an
insufficient reason because it cannot be proved.
If there is a reason then it must be that women must have weak minds and are
dopey which disqualifies them. This is nonsense too.
It is selfish if a religion is of man and men have the honour of being clergy and not women.