(July 16, 2017 at 4:08 am)Die Atheistin Wrote: Why don't some christian denominations still accept women as priests? Some do, why not all of them? Were in the 21st Century and in the free world, for crying out loud! And why don't most of the moderates have a problem with this? I get it from the fundamentalists, but why moderates? Even as a christian kid, I found this rule stupid.
My mother's sister is married to a priest (he's an orthodox priest, they can get married), and she works as a teacher. How can a smart woman (a little to emotional, though), who has a job, wanna have a husband that works in an institution that doesn't allow women?
You cannot nor should think in terms of one religion, or one sect but globally. On average depending on sect and geography most of the world's religions are male dominated. Most holy figures, even in India and Asia are male figures. Just like you wont in the near future see a female Pope, it is just as unlikely in the near future to see a female Dali Lama.
Just like most Rabbis are male. Islam has a problem too.
Sexism is not a patent owned by Christianity alone. It exists worldwide, and not just in religion, but also in global corporatism. Most CEOS worldwide are men.
Our species ON AVERAGE, globally is still stuck in an antiquated past where gender roles still exist. The west has gotten better over the past century, but it exists everywhere. Even in politics, just like America's congress is male dominated, Japan does not even have the same federal ratio female representation we do.
It isn't just Christianity, the books of Abraham, and even in polytheism back then, humans had no concept that girls/women were equal contributors genetically to the next generation of offspring.
Back then most humans thought of females as mere fields to plant the male seed in. It is only because of the discovery of evolution and DNA that we now know that females are just as important to our species survival as men.
