Ordination of women

[ethandron]

What is the religious reason why people object to the ordination of women?
Not being a church goer or believer or anything, I was wondering if there is something in the bible which says women can't be priests, or could be interpreted as such. Thank you.

[andy-hughes]

Indeed craft, but for every one of Dawn, there are hundreds of these -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17310911

[naomi24]

Beso's post explains the reasons. The books were written by men, and religion is stuck in the dark ages.

[woofgang]

did anyone see the beeb series on Goddesses and women in religion? Very interesting....she showed images of women as Christian priests, also images of women as Christian priests that had been altered to make them look like men.
She said on the show that the male only priesthood didn't actually start until St Augustine and his writings.

Divine women....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...rammes/b01g8ck1/clips

[naomi24]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1126008.html

[birdie1971]

The religious documents of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (and others) were all written by misogynistic men. That is not a criticism of them per-se since almost all men back then were misogynistic.

Both time and morality has moved on since then. Unfortunately, some people are not just stuck in the past – they want everyone else to join them in their blinkered, authoritarian, uncompromising, narcissistic world.

[mike11111]

Mammy, Mammy, learnt a new word today! Mysoginistic! Know what it means, Mammy? Means wot all men were like yonks ago when they didn't like ladies. Must be true 'cos Birdie says so!

[birdie1971]

Oh dear me.

You're not doing yourself any favours Mike. Crack on.

[mike11111]

Those who condemn all others with the sweeping generalisation: "blinkered, authoritarian, uncompromising, narcissistic" do themselves fewer favours than I do myself.

[birdie1971]

↑ You think so?

[birdie1971]

Mike

When I was referring to men with a, “... blinkered, authoritarian, uncompromising, narcissistic world [view]...” I was of course referring to people in the ancient past. Not forward-looking, progressive, inclusive, people such as yourself.

[ludwig]

Mike's definately winning this exchange. He's not making himself look like a complete nobend or anything.

[naomi24]

^^ :o)

[WaldoMcFroog]

Am I the only one to be concerned that Mike1111 thinks 'mysogenistic' (which, I note, he can't spell) is a word worthy of comment?

I realise he's attempting to extract the, er, Michael, from Birdie, but it's a pretty mundane word. I don't think many people would see it and think, "I know; I'll imply that using that word is a sign of someone trying to show off".

[WaldoMcFroog]

Skitt’s Law: Hoist by my own petard.

In my defence, I had deliberately misspelled it in my original formulation of my response, but I forget to change it when I re-wrote around it.

Feel free to point and laugh!

[naomi24]

Mike’s more au fait with googling English into foreign languages – he just needs to use a better translation site. ;o)