- Moderator
- #21
Women do alright in the Catholic faith. At least half of our saints are women, and none of them were the oppressed victims you seem to think.What's interesting about the great Protestant leaders, and Mohammed, and Joseph Smith, and Jim Jones, and Charlie Manson, is they all have one thing in common.
They were, personally, very horrible people.
I'm not so sure about all of them. Jim Jones and Manson were cult nuts.
I wouldn't put Mohammed and Smith in that same category.
But it brings up interesting questions. For example...the Catholic Church. In it's early history...it could have had it's seat in Ireland, a nation where women had rights, power and respect as lawmakers, judges and religious leaders. But it went to Rome and the results were a systemic disenfranchisment of women.
Women lost the right to become religious leaders for one.