Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"A lot of male clergy want to affirm justice for women while keeping church patriarchy intact.

"Few preachers accurately translate the Hebrew word for 'spirit' as female, but many piously insist on using male pronouns for for the word 'God.' They hypocritically translate the same Greek word as 'minister' for men, and 'deaconess' for women.

"It seems to me there is no more sexist statement possible for a human being to make than when the church says the sacred mystery of the cosmos is male. It tells every little girl that her brother looks more like God than she does.

"And if little girls are taught that they have been designed as helpers for the males, and, if they are taught to be submissive to their future husbands no matter how abusive, is that not a form of child abuse?"

-- Jim Rigby, 2018-11-29 (Facebook)