Drifting wrote:Women don't want it because they can't have it.
OK...I'll say it. I want it. Not only do I think that women should have it, but I think that the Church would greatly benefit from female leaders. Compare Relief Society to Priesthood. Which organization is consistently more organized? Our Visiting Teaching numbers consistently trounce Home Teaching numbers. Our lessons are more organized. Our Primary, run by women, runs like a well-oiled machine.
Female bishops would be outstanding counselors.
If the Church really wants to see things get done, put the women in charge.
Drifting wrote:Women don't want it because they can't have it.
OK...I'll say it. I want it. Not only do I think that women should have it, but I think that the Church would greatly benefit from female leaders. Compare Relief Society to Priesthood. Which organization is consistently more organized? Our Visiting Teaching numbers consistently trounce Home Teaching numbers. Our lessons are more organized. Our Primary, run by women, runs like a well-oiled machine.
Female bishops would be outstanding counselors.
If the Church really wants to see things get done, put the women in charge.
I'm trying to come up with some institution (or portion thereof) that hasn't been improved by admitting women. Perhaps someone can help me out on this conundrum?
Regrettably, my knee jerk reaction to your post was, "But this would cause the men of the church to fall back into laziness! The men would go inactive and the church would become a female dominated religion!"
What I see in the secular world is something different! Do you see men getting more lazy because women are given more opportunities? No!
OMG!
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
So, zeezrom, what would you have done if your daughter had replied with an exuberant "Yes!"?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
MsJack wrote:"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard." ~ From Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Most perfect quote ever for the whole, "Why would women ever want the priesthood, it's so hard and so nasty"
H.
PS. stealing it.
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Regrettably, my knee jerk reaction to your post was, "But this would cause the men of the church to fall back into laziness! The men would go inactive and the church would become a female dominated religion!"
What I see in the secular world is something different! Do you see men getting more lazy because women are given more opportunities? No!
OMG!
If women held the priesthood I might go back to church. I'd never have to do nothing ever again!
"Others cannot endure their own littleness unless they can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level." ~ Ernest Becker "Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death." ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Dr. Shades wrote:So, zeezrom, what would you have done if your daughter had replied with an exuberant "Yes!"?
I would lay my hands on her head and ordain her a deacon.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
zeezrom wrote:I should comment on my social experiment:
I felt weird asking Dear Daughter if she wanted the Priesthood.
Dear Wife objected lightly to my implication of passing Priesthood to Dear Daughter.
Dear Daughter thought it an odd question.
My 6-yr old son had no problem at all with my question.
Why did you feel weird? Could it be because it was weird? Why would your daughter think it odd? Could it be that it was odd? As you can see zee, no one here really cared about what you did on this trhead. But they did egg you on. But I gave you good advice for the future: leave them in peace about such things.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
