As a Christian who doesn’t follow much of the super religious “rules”, I think it’s kind of a red flag but sometimes it’s not. Red flag because my girlfriend’s ex-friend was super devout and put it all over her bio and was very ableist and homophobic. My friend, for example, is agnostic, so he’s not sure if spirituality exists. He has a friend who’s super devout and constantly talks about Christianity. She has a Discord server about Christianity and most of her friends are Christian who just talk about Jesus and God all the time. She puts the crosses and bible verses in her bio too. She’s very nice and tries to be accepting but seems kinda judgmental or like “Oh, your non-traditional ways are… nice I guess.”
She constantly asks my friend how his relationship with God is and if he reads the Bible and what his favorite verses are, even when he says he’s not super religious.
My mom as of recent has become super religious, and while she is pretty left-leaning, thinks the only way to believe is to be Christian and you HAVE to believe in Jesus or you’ll die instead of live forever in Heaven.
Christianity is patriarchal so the priest is correct that your sister shouldn’t be serving at the altar. I’m not sure why it was ever permitted in the first place but I’m not Catholic. They do many things I don’t understand. The idea that men and women must be able to occupy all roles equally didn’t reach critical mass in the secular world until 50-75 years ago. It shouldn’t be surprising that a 2000 year old tradition functions in this way. It sounds like the explanation that was given is correct. These justifications can be found in both scripture and tradition. This shouldn’t be misconstrued as women being less than a man it’s just that their roles are different. The most venerated Saint by far in all of Christendom is the Virgin Mary / Theotokos who filled a role that no man could fill, being the God bearer. I’m not expecting to change your mind. Modernism is it’s own religion with dogmas and heresies.
Oh, I get it, they’re separate but equal!
What a load of horseshit.
Bad faith comparison. I’m done.
Technically correct. It’s a valid comparison to Catholicism and Catholicism is, indeed, a bad faith.