(July 7, 2015 at 7:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ...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.
Arbitrarily discriminating on the basis of sex is the very definition of "sexism." If you think I am making that up, look it up in your favorite dictionary. I like Oxford, but you can use something else if you prefer.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
