Without More Women Allowed as Clergy, Christianity will Hurt


A group of women who researched the role of their gender in Christianity's expansion into Africa and China says women need to be allowed to be pastors in every part of the faith.

Christianity should be called the religion of NO. The most visible parts of it are the two biggest denominations, Catholics and Southern Baptists. In these to two NO is the operative word. NO women as clergy, NO gays as clergy and NO gays in most any other capacity, NO abortions and a few more NO's.

Both of these denominations are fast losing members. Other more liberal groups are losing members but the most amusing are the conservatives. 

Catholics and Baptists are determined to offset their lost numbers in the West by gains in Africa and China. They seem to think women on those continents want to be passed over and looked down upon like they are in the U.S. Women taking on the highest-level positions is a world-wide change and denominations who ignore this change will be relegated to the dust bin of history.

I've watched parts of conventions around the world which center on equal rights for women. The women of Africa and China where Catholics and Baptists want to rack up big numbers know full well the limit places on them by Christianity. These women look determined to me, and they say they will not stand being treated as second class citizens by the expansion of Christianity. 

I predicting the various groups trying to expand into other continents will find the same flaws that caused loses in this continent will damage their brands on others.


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