(July 7, 2015 at 5:16 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote:(July 7, 2015 at 4:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: My explanation for why God made it so that women can give birth and men can't, and why men can give sacraments and women can't? I think I said a lot more than just "for some reason." God thought it would be better this way. Why? That we do not know.
The problem is that it's not what god thought. It's what theists in a men's world want you to think. The two main religions (Christianity and Islam) are sexist. In both religions women have no rights. If god loves all of his children, then why there are no women on important positions in the Vatican and there are only men? And why there are more men's monastaries than women's? As far as I can remember from what I've read about Jesus, he was married. So, where does the sexism in religion comes from? Why the head of the Vatican is always a man? Give it some thinking and you yourself will find the contradictions between what the Vatican is preaching and what reality is.
I understand what you're saying about it being man made and not coming from God. It makes sense that an atheist would think that.
Being a believer though, I do think it comes from God. As a Christian, I've never felt as though I "had no rights." It is true that women can't be priests, but I don't think that comes from a place of sexism, as I have explained.
If anything, I see it as making things more equal - Women have the ability to carry a child for nine months and give birth (physical life), men have the ability to perform sacraments (spiritual life).
We believe that the laws/etc of the Church ultimately come from God, not from man, so that rules out the whole notion of "powerful men in the Vatican telling everyone what to do."
For an outsider looking in, I can understand how this makes little sense to you, especially if you don't believe in God or in spiritual life. Just know that for us who believe, none of this is coming from a place of sexism.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
