RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: WINNING EMAIL OF THE DAY ON THE LEFT'S FRENZY OVER POPE BENEDICT

Steve Brenneis responds to Behethland B. Clark:

"Don't you think that sounds a little sexist? In today's society, a woman can choose her domain. In the past, it was forced upon her."

You're going to have to address that one to God. He's the one who configured women's plumbing and decided they were the ones to bear children. Sexist or not, women who choose to have children and then abandon them to daycare centers bear direct responsibility for the decline of families and the values they represent. I have read many studies and research papers on the subject of whether women working outside the home is really a necessity. Most agree it is not. Most agree it is the fascination with instant gratification that leads couples to believe they must have that new television, car, or townhome.

If women (or couples) choose not to have children, there is nothing wrong with that decision. If women choose the ministry, they certainly have a number of ways to accomplish that. There is simply no requirement that they do it as Catholic priests.

"And like I said before, the Bible can be interpreted many different ways!"

It certainly can. Unfortunately a good many of them stray from the path of interpretation and into the path of obfuscation.

"It was written ambiguously for a reason."

I'm not sure what you mean by that. There is a reason it is ambiguous, but I certainly don't know of any reason it would be purposefully ambiguous. It was not written in a linear fashion like a novel. It is the collected works of several thousand years. The books of the New Testament alone cover less than 75 years of subjective time and those works were written over a period of almost twice that time by as many as two dozen authors.