Equal Doesn't Mean Same
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Originally Posted by fourgrtkidos
G-d is both male and female.I agree, and is the reason for this post. I want to find a Church that honours both the male and the female. I do not want to go in the complete opposite direction and go to a Church that only recognizes the femaleness of G-d. I am not against male, and that is a misconception I am running into when I say the word FEMINIST.
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I know I am in the minority here, but as a Catholic, I believe the church DOES honour both male and female. Just because people do not have the SAME roles does not mean they do not have EQUAL roles. God created us with this in mind. Personally, I find offense with the "feminist" culture that thinks I "sold-out" by embracing my feminity and desire to stay at home and nurture my family.
The most common analogy throughout the old and new testaments of the bible that God uses to describe his relationship with his people is that of the bride and groom. The pope wrote a wonderful description of this image and how it applies to human sexuality in his Theology of the Body. He explained how even our bodies are made in the image of God, and how sexual intercourse in marriage is physically representative of how God gives his love to the church and the church accepts that love, conceives it, and bears that love to the world! (i. e. children). It is beautiful and takes the idea of the church as the bride of Christ/God to a deeper more personal level. Both the masculine and feminine are needed to make this image complete!
No, women are not priests, but men are not mothers, and I think motherhood is an enormous gift, and while not the SAME, is certainly EQUAL to any role that men have.
