Sr. Vassa: There's no ontological impediment to priestesses
Is the male-only priesthood a discipline or essential to the nature of being a priest? Sr. Vassa (again unflinchingly taking up a contentious topic by climbing up the ladder to the highest platform and then jumping into the deep end head first) dives right in and says there is no reason beyond personal preference to not have female clergy. You know, when people ask me about women in priesthood, they say, 'Sister, why can't women be priests?' And I say, 'Women CAN be priests. We don't WANT them to be priests.' Because you see, God can do anything, and the Church, by divine authority, uh, can do anything, but, the Church doesn't want to - and that's a legitimate reason. What I don't like is when we TRY to pretend that there are other reasons for this, because it's legitimate not to want something, and there are reasons not to want this - right? - but, we shouldn't pretent that there's some... reason, that, for example, the maleness...
Ha ha... Liberals are idiots.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the reasonable observation about the reality that "Only one of these actually clicks" is generally dismissed out of hand as unreasonable (ironically), simplistic, antiquated, oppressive and even hateful.
ReplyDeleteI've gradually come to the conclusion that attempts to rationally discuss the issues of sexually orientation & gender identity are pointless, if not counterproductive, 99.99% of the time.
Given that it's a spiritual rather than an intellectual matter I've slowly gravitated to the default position of keeping quite, trying to love people & praying.
This demonstrates that only the different, but complementary, parts work properly & towards the end to which they were created.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we Orthodox could've made a better point about human sexuality ourselves. Thanks, KLM!
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