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.

Not that I'm against ordination. It's a perfectly okay method of determining whether someone has a pastoral vocation and training them in it. It's just that it isn't the only method of doing so, and it has an unnecessary mystique for something which was borrowed from the administrative practices of the Roman Empire. The Bird of Heaven will fly where it will, and nobody can put it into a cage.

I guess that means I don't believe in the Apostolic Succession.

Comments

[tptigger]

Um, can you put that int secular English? You totally lost me.

[deird1]

*nods* As someone who is very much priesthood-of-all-believers-y, I get slightly baffled by this debate.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

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).

[miamadwyn.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of the Apostolic Succession. In fact, I love the idea of it.

But I am a little confused by your opinion. Are you saying that you don't think women's ordination is a big deal, as in, whether or not they can be ordained is not one of the things you care about?

[sixpence-jones.livejournal.com]

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.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Guess not.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

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.