For the opinion of Mainstream Christianity regarding men and women, it would have been better to post a link to a description of their doctrine, and use that as the basis of a discussion.
I haven't watched the video: the pre-play screen-shot seems to be of a dishevelled and ranting male redneck so my 'spider sense' is tingling and telling me he isn't going to be greatly informed as to modern female interpretations of Christianity. Hearing from a woman would have been more relevant, for a start.
Reading some of the commentary in other posts, he seems to be a disgrace to the word logic on his T-shirt.
I am a mainstream Christian, a Catholic.
To me, the suggestion that Christianity is somehow oppressive or sexist to women is absurd. Here is what the Catholic Catechism says:
1935 is the paragraph number, not a date btw.
(*here is term 'men' used as per the common description of 'mankind' for all humanity, it doesn't refer exclusively to male persons.)
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/ar...s1c2a3.htm
And if you look around the Church, you will see that women are its beating heart at parish level and beyond.
There are many influential and prominent lay and religious women working in the modern Catholic Church. There are many female Saints. 4 women hold the honourific title of "Doctor of the Church", which is the highest 'rank' (if you will) the Church can bestow, referring to individuals whom it recognises as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their contribution to theology or doctrine.
Additionally, most of the practising Catholic women I know are, or were (before retiring), degree-educated (or better) professionals with a successful career.
I do not see any evidence, in the Catechism or in my experience, that an ordinary Catholic womans experience of Christianity is any different from an ordinary Catholic mans.
Criticism of the Church as regards women is generally absurd nonsense from non-Catholic people, people who speak from an agenda, not experience.
And so from the perspective of mainstream Christianity, a woman might want to be a Christian for exactly the same reasons as a man might. The word Catholic means "universal", (i.e. for everyone), and so there is no difference in its appeal between genders or races or age groups or whatever.
I haven't watched the video: the pre-play screen-shot seems to be of a dishevelled and ranting male redneck so my 'spider sense' is tingling and telling me he isn't going to be greatly informed as to modern female interpretations of Christianity. Hearing from a woman would have been more relevant, for a start.
Reading some of the commentary in other posts, he seems to be a disgrace to the word logic on his T-shirt.
I am a mainstream Christian, a Catholic.
To me, the suggestion that Christianity is somehow oppressive or sexist to women is absurd. Here is what the Catholic Catechism says:
Catholic Catechism Wrote:1935 The equality of men* rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it:
Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design
1935 is the paragraph number, not a date btw.
(*here is term 'men' used as per the common description of 'mankind' for all humanity, it doesn't refer exclusively to male persons.)
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/ar...s1c2a3.htm
And if you look around the Church, you will see that women are its beating heart at parish level and beyond.
There are many influential and prominent lay and religious women working in the modern Catholic Church. There are many female Saints. 4 women hold the honourific title of "Doctor of the Church", which is the highest 'rank' (if you will) the Church can bestow, referring to individuals whom it recognises as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their contribution to theology or doctrine.
Additionally, most of the practising Catholic women I know are, or were (before retiring), degree-educated (or better) professionals with a successful career.
I do not see any evidence, in the Catechism or in my experience, that an ordinary Catholic womans experience of Christianity is any different from an ordinary Catholic mans.
Criticism of the Church as regards women is generally absurd nonsense from non-Catholic people, people who speak from an agenda, not experience.
And so from the perspective of mainstream Christianity, a woman might want to be a Christian for exactly the same reasons as a man might. The word Catholic means "universal", (i.e. for everyone), and so there is no difference in its appeal between genders or races or age groups or whatever.
