God and Her (Female) Clergy

NY Times ^ | March 31, 2018 | Nicholas Kristof

[C19fan]

Ever since Eve bit into an apple in the Garden of Eden, God has been rough on women.

Or, more precisely, the men who claim to speak on behalf of God have routinely disparaged women or discriminated against them. Male religious leaders declared menstruation ritually unclean and advised in Deuteronomy that when a girl doesn’t bleed on her wedding night “the men of her town shall stone her to death.”

[C19fan]

And those denominations that have women clerics and feminist theology are dying.

[bray]

Don’t you love it how atheists are always explaining the Bible to Christians.

[SandRat]

thst’s a maga laugh-er, “atheists are always explaining the Bible to Christians.”

[Right Brother]

What? No quotes from the female-friendly Quran?

[miss marmelstein]

This guy again! He speaks for all women!

And you’re right about those churches. Meanwhile, islam - the fake religion - proceeds apace.

[imardmd1]

They forget that in forming the female human, God apparently deliberately left out one essential construction building block: the Y chromosome without which the female will never fully understand the male soul.

[Desron13]

Given Eve’s role in the Garden of Eden it seems eminently fitting that women feminists should preside over the demise of Christianity in Western Civilization. They should be so proud that they have succeeded in finally destroying the patriarchy once and for all. I just can’t help but wonder how happy they will be with what will follow.

[FiddlePig]

The rants and responses from the nonbelievers proves for any who have eyes to see and a mind to think, that a soul without God is by default, restless and discontent. For without the indwelling of Holy Spirit the only “god” is Ego...and Ego is a cruel, fearful and merciless master... as it churns like a tempest and offers no peace or contentment. It is angered by the very concept of any God other than itself!

Genesis chapter 3 for further study... the original seduction of Ego.

[LadyDoc]

menstruation was a cleanliness problem before running water...Isolating women is not only Biblical but in other societies.

However the good news was that in traditional societies you breast fed kids for two to four years, so no periods. then you got pregnant again. The onset of puberty when I worked in Africa was 16.And often stopped at 40.

Most of the terrible laws he complains about, or Freepers complain about when Muslims do them, are based on societies where women are vulnerable because of pregnancy or breast feeding...not to mention death from war, famine, or disease. No welfare state, so you had to belong to a family.

[Antoninus]

I surmise they are talking about Athena or Isis in this article? There’s no such thing as “women clergy”. But, of course, there can be fake women clergy in an age where there are “male” mothers.

[I want the USA back]

News flash: God has changed His gender and His pronoun: She.
Female clergy is a bad idea.

[Albion Wilde]

Union Theological Seminary — where almost 60 percent of the students are now female. “We’re seeing a new day of understanding of who God is,” Dr. Jones added. “When the people who are representing God, making God present, have female bodies, that inevitably changes the way you think about how God is.” Dr. Jones argues that over time women will come to dominate religious leadership and that this will powerfully reshape Americans’ understanding of God from stern father to more of a maternal healer and nurturer.

Oh, spare us! Please, no! It has been the ruination of the mainstream church.

Back in the 60s, half of everybody who when to Union was gay. I wouldn't use Union as a measuring stick.