Whatever You do, Don’t Leave the Church 1
14th Sep 2009
Hello lovely people
No, I have not suddenly been converted and become a church goer.
I don’t know if you have noticed how organised religion keeps compromising in an effort to keep people in the church. I am not referring to one specific religion either.
If you are part of the religion, these compromises are probably the most logical thing to do. However, looking in from the outside, sometimes I can only shake my head.
I remember many years ago, in the 70’s, the furore that women caused in my congregation by actually going to church with a bare head. The rule was that a woman had to cover her head when entering a church, but a man had to take his hat off. Why? What is wrong with a woman’s hair? And why the different treatment for men and women? But the church could not stop the trend and had to change the rule. Today women go to church without hats.
Recently my partner and I went into the cathedral in Cologne, and he was instructed by a stern-faced cleric to remove his golf cap. I was tempted to take that same golf cap and put it on my head, just to see whether I would also be challenged. And would God have noticed that any of His/Her rules were broken? Whose rule is it anyway?
I was still a church-goer when the Christian church in my culture had their big soul-searching about allowing woman preachers. This was at a time when feminism was the rage, and of course the church kicked against this new trend.
The solution was to allow woman preachers to be trained (this required two university degrees and was quite expensive) and then to use them in “soft” positions namely working in old age homes or with children. This way they could be sidelined and were not able to “do too much damage”.
Of course right-minded women ignored such nonsense and chose different careers, and the church got its way while appearing to adapt.
This strategy of compromise is still being used.
To be continued.
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Love and Light
Elsabe
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