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The Bible prohibition on female priests was just part of the other Patriarchal nonsense tied up with all the other Abrahamic teachings (God is identified as 'male', he set up differing rules for males and females and roles for them, with often fatal penalties if they transgressed) etc etc etc. It's not a big deal, it's just the usual big three religious misogyny designed to take away first the power of the Goddesses, then the power of their Priestesses and finally the power of women altogether. they had to actually be threatened with death to achieve this. Some men appear not to have enjoyed an equal partnership with women in the home, workplace, church or indeed society at large for the last couple of thousand years. Thankfully most people no longer care, so women priests are fine, although quite why they would want to join that particular club is beyond me, it's a bit like gatecrashing a party where you know you're not welcome.
Well in that case if it worries you why not just go and treat it as a day out rather than part of your religious life and then you can enjoy her sermon without having felt you've 'cheated'. Lots of the christian Scriptures have been dropped, we don't see many stonings for wearing two types of cloth these days in the midlands, so I think the female priests thing is well on it's way out. Give it some thought, I'm sure your God would want you to be thoughtful about it if nothing else.
//Some men appear not to have enjoyed an equal partnership with women... for the last couple of thousand years//
Concerning gender roles and the treatment of women generally, what's special about the last 2,000 years rather than the preceding quarter of a million years of human evolution, Klavidir? Or, indeed, what's special about monotheistic religions compared with polytheistic religions or other pre-scientific explanations of the world?
Concerning gender roles and the treatment of women generally, what's special about the last 2,000 years rather than the preceding quarter of a million years of human evolution, Klavidir? Or, indeed, what's special about monotheistic religions compared with polytheistic religions or other pre-scientific explanations of the world?
When Florence Tim Oi Li was ordained by Bishop Hall in 1944, the Anglican authorities sought in vain for scriptural reasons to object to the ordination, but couldn't find any. ( See Tim Oi Li's obituary in the Times.) She was the only person who could run the blockade of Hong Kong without suspicion, carrying the sacraments past the enemy to the faithful. Bishop Hall reckoned that God had already recognised her as a priest, so ordained her in order for her to consecrate the sacraments herself. Bishop Hall decided he was in no position to disagree with God.
