CrossCuT Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) Warning: Incoming sarcasm. :evil: [spoiler] 10. A man’s place is in the army. 9. The pastoral duties of men who have children might distract them from the responsibility of being a parent. 8. The physique of men indicates that they are more suited to such tasks as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It would be “unnatural†for them to do ministerial tasks. 7. Man was created before woman, obviously as a prototype. Thus, they represent an experiment rather than the crowning achievement of creation. 6. Men are too emotional to be priests or pastors. Their conduct at football and basketball games demonstrates this. 5. Some men are handsome, and this will distract women worshipers. 4. Pastors need to nurture their congregations. But this is not a traditional male role. Throughout history, women have been recognized as not only more skilled than men at nurturing, but also more fervently attracted to it. This makes them the obvious choice for ordination. 3. Men are prone to violence. No really masculine man wants to settle disputes except by fighting about them. Thus they would be poor role models as well as dangerously unstable in positions of leadership. 2. The New Testament tells us that Jesus was betrayed by a man. His lack of faith and ensuing punishment remind us of the subordinated position that all men should take. 1. Men can still be involved in church activities, even without being ordained. They can sweep sidewalks, repair the church roof, and perhaps even lead the song service on Father’s Day. By confining themselves to such traditional male roles, they can still be vitally important in the life of the church. [/spoiler] http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2012/11/10-reasons-why-men-shouldnt-be-ordained/ The list made me giggle. Edited January 30, 2014 by CrossCuT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oremoose Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 seems legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I suppose this is making a point of when people give reasons for why women shouldn't be ordained? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semper Catholic Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 This list is almost as ridiculous as most reasons to not allow women to be ordained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazeingstar Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 *sigh* For protestants not having women ministers is quite sexist. However, Catholics view things differently. But yet again we seem to be the mean gender-discriminating pigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 This list is almost as ridiculous as most reasons to not allow women to be ordained. :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightofChrist Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 !@@! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I think this is based on an actual parody article that ran during the women's suffrage movement to counteract the idea that women don't belong anywhere in the public sphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortify ii Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 This is a bit of an aside, but is the reason why women can't be ordained solely an argument from authority? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Historian Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 This is a bit of an aside, but is the reason why women can't be ordained solely an argument from authority? It's an argument from the very nature and purpose of the priesthood. Priests are not mere social workers or parish administrators. They are alter Christus, another Christ, and they exercise their priestly ministry in persona Christi, in the person of Christ. When they celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass it is none other than Christ at the altar. When they are absolving penitents in the confessional it is none other than Christ applying the merits of His Most Precious Blood. And Christ was a real person that took to Himself a corporeal humanity, a sanctified human nature. And He was a man. He was not a woman, the person of Christ, King, Priest and Prophet, is that of a man. To be another Chris in the sacramental sense, to act in the person of Christ, requires masculinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightofChrist Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Jesus Christ is the husband of the Church, and Mother Church is the bride of Christ. The Priest as alter Christus (another Christ), or in persona Christi Capitis (in the person of Christ the head), is also married to Mother Church. Ordaining women as priestess would present a form of spiritual lesbianism into the Church, and that is a theological impossibility, and a completely incompatible with the Faith revealed to us by Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semper Catholic Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 So lesbians and blonde haired blue eyed Jesus. Got it. Pretty sure God and Jesus can embody any person or any thing whatever they may choose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 So lesbians and blonde haired blue eyed Jesus. Got it. Pretty sure God and Jesus can embody any person or any thing whatever they may choose. God can't do anything He wants, because He is bound by reason. He is incapable of doing anything outside of reason, because that would be doing something outside of His nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semper Catholic Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 God can't do anything He wants, because He is bound by reason. He is incapable of doing anything outside of reason, because that would be doing something outside of His nature. See that's a much better explanation. Even god knows women are completely unreasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 See that's a much better explanation. Even god knows women are completely unreasonable. If Jesus is a man (Which he is), it is outside the realm of reason and logic to have a woman act in Persona Christi. That's like me taking the lead role in Evita. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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