Do you think women should be allowed to be priests?

Question

I, personally, don't think we should. We just weren't given that authority by God, we have our own duties. What are you're opinions?

Please explain your reasoning, ty.

Please keep in mind that I am not saying that women should stay home and clean and serve man's ever whim. I'm just saying women should not be priests.

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Well no.. they're nuns. But then I don't believe Nuns and Priests should exist. I'm not catholic - I don't believe people should have to confess their sins to a priest, they should confess to God, either alone, or in their heads. I also don't think that a man should become a man of God, and be celibate. I believe a man and a woman should marry another so they may take part in the beautiful thing God created for them... sex.

I believe that some of the priests resort to molesting little boys because they feel they can not have a woman... even though molesting little boys is just as bad as fornicating with a woman before marriage. ... ah what a mess.

No, women should not be priests, there should be no priests!

I don't feel women should be pastors, persay.. but I feel they could, and SHOULD be teachers in the church.

Answer 3

Male priests are a custom, not a direct order from God. Anyway God couldn't care less if a priest is a man woman gay or lesbian as long as their life style is not scandalous to the community.
In the days where bible was written we had patriarchies so everything in the bible is in favor of men
I believe it's not the gender that matters. A priest should be educated, reasonable, loving and understanding and not a hypocrite.

Answer 4

I think women should be able to be priests/ ministers/ whatever.
I dont know where you think or read that God didn't give women authority to preach. I have heard many women who were much better at teaching & preaching than some of the men I've listened to. As for our "duties" as women- I'm assuming you think that's doing dishes and having kids...

Answer 5

I am a catholic and I say yes, preaching the Gospel is just that preaching, they are not gods or goddesses, they are simply spreading the good news. And yes all priests men and woman must be allowed to marry it will bring forth a greater family unity within the church that's my view anyway.

Answer 6

Wow. A lot of people on this thread haven't really read their Bible.

Yes, everybody has read Paul's letter that states that women should not teach men. Yet, Paul is very inconsistent in his writings on the subject of whether women should hold positions of authority in the church.

After all, in his letter to the Romans, why does Paul make Phoebe the deaconess to the Romans? In his letter to Timothy, Paul makes clear that there are only two church offices: Deacon and Bishop. Yet he tells the Romans that he is sending Phoebe as their Deacon (And, yes, he uses the word DEACONESS in Greek...there's no wiggle room on this) and to do what she requires of them. Now if women are not to teach and not to have authority, will somebody explain to me why he's sending a woman to preside over the Romans' church? And, in the same passage, he mentions several other women who have been named to high church office.

Further, as supporting text, all you have to do is read Paul's letter to the Galatians, where he clearly states that there are no men and women in Christ, no rich and poor, no slave and free. There are just Christians. So with Paul clearly subscribing to absolute egalitarianism in the church, why provide one gender with more priveleges than another?

Answer 7

It isn't a matter of "allowing". It is a defined doctrine of the faith that the Church does not have the authority to ordain women. Therefore it CANNOT happen, with or without "permission". You can give a cow "permission" to fly, but that won't change reality.

Women in the Catholic Church can preach, teach, counsel, administrate, lead prayer, and basically do anything a Protestant minister can do, and more. But they cannot be priests.

Answer 8

Women have the RIGHT to be priests, but I doubt that they ever will be.

Our culture has been deeply penetrated by the notion that "man"-not woman- is created in the image of God. This notion persists, despite the likelihood that the creation goes in the other direction:that God is a human projection of the image of man. No known religion, past or present, ever succeeded in establishing a completely sexless deity.
As a salvation religion, early Christianity based its scheme of redemption on the premise of female wickedness. Adam, representing all men, was less guilty than Eve, representing all women. St. Paul even regarded Eve as the only guilty one (1 Timothy 2:14). Throughout history we find clergymen advocating abuse of women, to express their horror of female sexuality and their conviction that all women deserve punishment for the primordial crime that brought death and damnation to man. In the sixth century, churchman even denied that women had any souls!!!
The older concept of the female Holy Trinity ruling all cycles of creation, birth, and death in her Virgin Mother, and Crone forms, was destroyed by Christians' attack on her temples, scriptures, rituals, and followers. The church declared from the first that the Great Goddess "whom Asia and all the world worshippeth" must be despised, "and her magnificence destroyed" (Acts 19:27).
Fathers of the church declared that the original sin was perpetuated through all generations by every woman, through sexual conception and birth-giving. The later development of Christian myths contributed much to sexist thinking. In Europe, sexism was a primary product of the Christian church.

Even though Christianity itself grew out of the once-universal religion of the Goddess, it was a matriarchal son whose bigotry tinged every thought and feeling with woman-hatred. In the end it produced a society in which members of one sex invariably oppressed members of the other, and both came to regard this inequity as a natural state of affairs, ordained by a male "Creator."

I was raised in a Catholic church and walked away from the church as soon as I was old enough. I still believe in God and Jesus, but there are just too many aspects of the religion that disgust and infuriate me to ever go to church again.

Answer 9

I don't think anybody should be allowed to be a "priest" - someone that holds forth that they know the secrets of the creation of the universe through the human invention of a god concept. The delusional should not be allowed to hold a position of authority over others.

Answer 10

women have just as much intelligence as men, so how can anyone argue that they would not be capable as religious leaders? After all, we trust them to raise kids and teach in schools.

As for how various Christian faiths have treated women, I think if more women were in positions of leadership, then such anti-woman behavior in the church at large would be systematically stopped. It would therefore be in women's interest to have women preachers/priests.

Answer 11

I say women should be allowed to be priests when men become capable of having babies.