Feminists can be Christians, too

[darkstar3]

47. See, now you're just amusing me.

Let me count the ways.

1. Wikipedia has serious problems with accuracy, especially when (as in this case) the reference materials are not all readily available online for fact checking.

2. Even if #1 wasn't a problem, you're quoting and linking to an article that makes my point. Go read it in its entirety. You'll see that every major heading under Christianity describes an inequality between women and men.

3. The ability of a member of a victimized class to rise to a position of power in no way demonstrates that the victimization of that class is "over." That is, unless you're one of those people who thinks that having a black President means we're now a "post-racial society."

4. Branching off of #3: Ordination is one small piece of religion. Even if we threw out the other points I've made so far, using a laser beam focus on ordination to try and claim that religion (especially Christianity) is somehow a bastion of sexual equality is a badly flawed argument.

5. On the topic of ordination, the article you link to weakens the word considerably. Ordination is a formal process by which certain members of a denomination put in the time and effort to learn about their faith, and then are recognized for it. The article, when referring to protestant churches, treats church elections as an ordination process. That is just plain incorrect. And when you don't stretch the meaning of ordination to mean "any process by which someone begins leading a congregation," you find that half of protestant denominations don't even have ordination. Again, Wikipedia and accuracy...