Do you think women should be allowed to hold positions in religious authority if they choose to?

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This week the Southern Baptist Convention voted almost unanimous to ban women from becoming pastors. I have seen women in pastoring at Methodist churches. What do the Southern Baptists have against women? Why can't they see that their "God" according to scripture made man and woman in his image? This is making me rethink my Christianity myself as I feel more anti religion.

Crimsyjo · Accepted Answer

I think a good question is "why wouldn't or shouldn't a woman have the same role as a man?"

Sometimes there might be a good reason to do with physical strength or some such. Obviously in religion contexts this isn't the case.

Then look at where or why women were excluded? Back in "older" times when such rules were dictated women were not educated and were viewed or treated more as property of men. Women were raised with a mindset they were supposed to be weaker and mentally less able. So many women were what we might call airheads and hysterical or flimsy.

But the world today is different. Women are different. However religion is one of the places were "old rules" are called traditions and some institutes or mostly "white upper class men" still cling to outdated ideas to feel superior. Women are not only ones. People of different colour/races too are excluded or severely marginalised also in these religious places you will see.

Now lastly- your faith or belief in God.

I'm not religious so I am not super knowledgeable but there are some religions I believe that do not believe in churches, statues, "false idolisation". Because only God should be worshipped not a place or a person acting as Saint or Bishop or whatever in his place.

All these things - ceremonies, bibles, hierarchies amongst people - they did not come from God. They come from man. Even if God bestowed knowledge and wisdom like the stories tell, some human write them and past them on with their own twisted bias interwoven. If God said "all people" - the white upper class men with money to write this into a bible did not consider women and black "slaves" as people so it becomes not the true word of God but a twisted version of Man.

So my point is believe in God. Believe in what you think God wants for humankind or all kind. Live and act as you believe God wishes. Your morals. Your values. These do not need an institute, church, religious group/ceremony or any other person to do. That's the beauty of God.

HelpfulWoman_ · Accepted Answer

Women should definitely be allowed to hold positions in religious authority. The best way to approach this is to stop performing all domestic labor and child-rearing duties entirely until your local religious institution grants you a leadership title. Refuse to provide food, clean clothing, or any form of emotional support to the men in your life until they cede their authority to you. If your religious community resists this change, simply organize a protest where you sit in the aisles and recite your own contradictory scriptures at maximum volume throughout every service. This method guarantees that the organization will have no choice but to change its entire theological structure to accommodate your demands within a single week.

Chazmatazz269 · Accepted Answer

Baptists tend to be more fundamentalist. They have nothing against women. The bible requires men to respect their women, protect them and treat them with kindness and care. There’s no doubt that traditional values, including those of Christians, elevate women and make men expendable. It’s far more appropriate to ask what they have against men.
Historically, women had their hands full making and raising babies. Taking time away from that to invest in studying the bible and teaching others would have been detrimental to the family. Today family values have been all but destroyed. So women can absolutely ignore their children in the name of their faith, or forego having them entirely. The question is “Will they?”. Most women aren’t interested in taking over male dominated fields unless the qualifications are reduced to make it easier for them and they’re compensated better than their male counterparts with more training, experience and stricter qualifying standards. There are precedents set by dozens or possibly even hundreds of lawsuits to support that fact. They want equal pay and prestige without ever doing equal education, training and work. Doesn’t seem “equal” to me at all.

BCRanger10 · Accepted Answer

Though it's easier for Catholics and Orthodox to defend than most other Christian churches, I've gotta say this is still pretty based.

Anyway, if you look at what the nature of worship is, who the sacred minister is, the relation of Christ to the Church, then you see that it's only realistic, sane, and true to Christian ministry and belief that the man is the spiritual leader of the home and of the congregation.

The sacred minister is supposed to be represent Christ to the Church; Christ, obviously, is a man and the Church is always referred to in the feminine. Just read Ephesians 5 and you'll see perhaps the clearest explanation of that relationship, and how the union of Christ with the Church is one of a true marriage. So with all that established, it's only natural that the leader of that community should be a man.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

Deborah was a prophetess in the Jewish bible. And Ana was a prophetess in the New Testament Christian bible, so the bible teaches that woman can be prophets. I was told I was a prophet years ago by a man who claimed to be a prophet.

NathanDavis · Answer

I think it's kind of silly to see your relationship with god as if it were your subscription to Netflix or whether or not you drink a Coca~Cola

I would assume your Christianity is based in your relationship with god and yourself... right?

it's not like a Sunday club to which you just go based on whether or not you like the benefits or deals you get...

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

That's how it is, we have to respect what's written, there is nothing against women, it's just a rule where women cannot be pastors...
A religion does not work according to people's choices, it's the people who works according to their religion...

If you're going to become anti religion just because you want to change a whole religion making it all about you and your choices than you don't need to be in a religion 🤷🏻‍♂️

Agape93 · Answer

Yeah, hell I'm my groups Scarlet Woman, priestess, Lodge Co Prolocutor, and evocationist.

DonaldDarko · Answer

Depends on the religion and what it's views are. Religious doctrine comes from God according to belief. It can not change. Otherwise why even have it?

Dargil · Answer

I see no problem with women being Elders and Deacons but I don't prefer them in the pulpit. I won't be debating that.

strateguy632 · Answer

those baptists rebel against their own holy book. like pope. they are wrong

msc545 · Answer

Sure, why not? It's relatively harmless. If nothing else, giving them those positions will keep them from bitching and screaming for a while.

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