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Post #2544035

2026-01-08 10:29 UTC

>Catholic and Orthodox have way less loonies comparatively than either evangelicals or the fedora wearing atheist crowd which is basically another form of protestantism. I've never been religious by my little sister was. She loved helping out at Mass every Sunday, and volunteered to be an alter server. She was one of the most faithful and good-hearted Christians I've ever met. As long as you didn't bring up abortion, anyway. Then one day the priest said she wasn't allowed to anymore, because she was a girl. He said that only boys should be allowed up in the front of church. His justification was that being an alter server was practice for being a priest, and only men were allowed to be priests. Do you happen to know what the Catholic Church's justification for only allowing male priests is, by the way? Well you see, God is male, obviously, and the Church is symbolically married to God, so that means that the Church must be symbolically female, and priests are symbolically married to the Church (the Church is poly?) meaning, of course, that priests have to be male. If you get a Protestant or a fedora atheist, you're basically rolling the dice, but if you get a Catholic, you know for a fact that they're at minimum fine with being part of a deeply sexist, homophobic, and authoritarian institution. Fucking *Amazon* would be a better moral authority than the Catholic Church because at least Amazon doesn't *explicitly descriminate based on sex.* Always the last to be dragged into the future, kicking and screaming the whole time, since Galileo if not before. [WKUK - Pope Rap](https://youtu.be/6TxjrHPHypA)

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  • @Manmoth@lemmy.ml 2026-01-08 14:41

    Christianity is patriarchal so the priest is correct that your sister shouldn't be serving at the altar. I'm not sure why it was ever permitted in the first place but I'm not Catholic. They do many things I don't understand. The idea that men and women must be able to occupy all roles equally didn't reach critical mass in the secular world until 50-75 years ago. It shouldn't be surprising that a 2000 year old tradition functions in this way. It sounds like the explanation that was given is correct. These justifications can be found in both scripture and tradition. This shouldn't be misconstrued as women being less than a man it's just that their roles are different. The most venerated Saint by far in all of Christendom is the Virgin Mary / Theotokos who filled a role that no man could fill, being the God bearer. I'm not expecting to change your mind. Modernism is it's own religion with dogmas and heresies.

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