angry feminist post.

Recently a person very near and very dear to me sent me a link to a sermon by a man who at one point in his sermon states "We do not believe that women can be pastors." I immediately stopped listening and inquired of sed person as to why they would think that I would enjoy such ignorant material. To which he replied it was the person's right to believe that way. 

Okay. I don't get it. If this person was talking about how wonderful slavery was or how great sex trafficking was, it would be a whole other ball game. And I tried to explain to dear friend that his maleness was preventing him from really seeing things from the perspective of a woman- and not just any woman but one who has fought against this ignorance since the second someone looked at her in a ministry class and asked if she wanted to be a pastor's wife. 

Isn't this another form of oppression? And while it may not be as overt as slavery or sex trafficking, doesn't that make it's silent sneaky agenda just as awful and damaging? When I hear statements like this I picture hundreds of women dutiful fulfilling their "roles" and not reaching the potential, and the CALLING that God has for them. Maybe this form of oppression is a blasphemy- denying the power of God in people has to be like a slap in God's face. 

Tonight my friend told me about another pastor who thinks that God can't be a woman. God can't. Well let me address two fallacies- limiting God and glorifying gender. Lame. I would like to write this man a letter and ask him to melt his androcentric golden calf and lay off the bad theology. 

Okay- so I will admit that this topic riles me up. But I will never apologize for asking the questions or challenging the stupid stupid stupid stupid ideals that permeate, infect our church and cause death. My God is life and my God has called a lot of amazing women to the role of pastor- not children's pastor or pastor's wife. And they are valid. 

Amen.