Scientology.
If you want to keep arguing this point, please make your own thread. And I will be happy to come there and tell you why you are wrong.
Good luck with that.
Unitarians?
Gee, so
isnt true?
The CoE has female and gay bishops and ministers.
The Lutheran, the Methodist and several others also have Female Bishops.
Reform Judaism has female Rabbis.
There are even a couple female Imams.
Yep.
Sure, which is why there are so many Christian denominations, not all believing the same thing.
Good point.
Sure. Paul. Not all Christian churches are pauline churches. Find a quote by Jesus about that.
You don’t understand even the basics of Reform Judaism. That was some seriously ignorant goysplaining
No it really isn’t. More goysplaining though. You don’t have the privilege to tell us what we are.
Please fight our ignorance. I’ve been hoping a better source would come along.
But it also says that God created man and woman in God’s image.
26 And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.” 27 And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Christianity understands God to be male. Judaism understands God to be the model for both male and female. God is both more masculine than any man any more feminine than any woman, and our souls are all reflections of God’s nature.
What’s written down is both repetitive any inconsistent. Literally everyone who cares about the foundational texts of Abrahamic religions picks and chooses.
Reform Judaism today is very egalitarian.
My reform synagogue is large, and has 4 rabbis, including two women. Our cantor is female.
Again, there are some fairly large Christian sects who see God in both the masculine and feminine aspects.
Okay. I confess that much of what i know about Christianity i learned from C. S. Lewis, who shocked me by saying that one might conceive of a God who wasn’t male, but than you wouldn’t be Christian.
Well, you wouldn’t be a 1950’s Anglican, anyway . . .
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul goes on a chapter-long rant about how men remove their hats in church because they serve God but women keep their hats on because they serve men. I see the bible as a translation of a verbal transmission of man’s interpretation of God’s inspiration. Paul is giving his first century interpretation.
Alright, fine. Y’all wanna do this here? Then we will do this here. But I warn you, you are going to be watching some Dan McClellan videos, and he does not take prisoners.
I mean, that’s pretty much half the point of the Talmud.
Yes, the Talmud, which in a very real sense is the foundational text of Judaism, records the rabbis arguing about what the Torah means. And they always include multiple arguments. They don’t say, “this is the true meaning”, they say, “rabbi A says it means this but rabbi b says it means that. But rabbi c points out that if you look at this other text, …”
Anyway, i have a friend who grew up Catholic. His religion was very important to him, until it became intolerable when he came out as non-gender conforming and polyamorous. He was exploring other religious options, most of which were pretty loosey-goosey and high effort. I took him to my reform Jewish synagogue for a Sabbath service, not because i thought he’d want to convert to Judaism, but to show him that there are religious options that are liturgical and traditional, but are also egalitarian and queer-friendly.
Might want to read up on the history there…LOL
Wow, this isn’t offensive or anti-Semitic in any way. Is this one of those white supremacist “Celtic” types?
Yes, that’s literally how all religion works.