Unpopular Opinion Of The Day

[kerravonsen]

Arguing about the ordination of women is like arguing about whether the fish's bicycle should be blue or pink.

Comments

[izhilzha]

Ah, I see--your first sentence confused me mightily. :)

I am probably more in favor of your opinion than others, if only because I have been a member of several different churches with various takes on the subject (both of ordaining women, which I think is only sensible, and of what ordination or ministry leadership should look like at all).

[kerravonsen]

(nods)
What unites us is more important than what divides us. I consider myself non-denominational because I don't think the differences in denominations are that important. And, yes, different denominations do things in different ways, and most of them work anyway.

[kerravonsen]

I don't think women's ordination is a big deal because I don't think ordination itself is a big deal.

Not that I think you're wrong for loving the idea of the Apostolic Succession; there's something comforting and awesome in the chain of history in it. But I feel that it's wrong to declare that ministers can ONLY be chosen that way; it's like telling God what He can and cannot do. God and the Spirit can do what they darn well please, which includes calling people who aren't part of the Apostolic Succession.

Does that make my position clearer?

[sixpence_jones]

I don't think I have ever read such a neat summation of the discussion: taking in historical practices and theology in five sentences. Love it.

[kerravonsen]

Why, thank you, Ma'am.

[hawkeye7]

Guess not.

[jaxomsride]

We have a lot to "thank" the Romans for, two thousand years of patriarchal domination, for one.

Jesus had female Apostles, but the Church refuses to accept that.