So they are labeling a brand new (and obviously flawed) AI as a priest, but women (who are human beings) still can’t be priests?
Sorry ladies, you’ve now fallen further down the ladder.
- Regular straight Catholic men - acceptable priest
- Gay Catholic men - acceptable priest (as long as they don’t get caught)
- Male converted Anglican priests - acceptable priest (in some scenarios)
- Catholic men with gross sexual habits - acceptable priest
- Flawed AIs - acceptable priest
- Corporations - soon to be priests?
- Catholic women - ABSOLUTELY NOT!
but women (who are human beings)
Is that actually the church’s stance? Like, has the pope ever said this?
Come to think of it, it’s a bit surprising that a more woman-centric sect of Christianity hasn’t risen to any level of prominence in the US. I suppose it’s easier to transition into agnosticism or atheism than to form a belief system, but its absence is still surprising in the modern era. Or is it as simple as demographic shifts and the absence of power during relevant periods? Religion is gradually waning in most of the west, after all. The patriarchy potentially stole The Mome from us, and that’s kinda lame tbh.
I don’t think the vast majority of American Christians are anywhere near ready to accept a Christian denomination founded by and led by women. Which is a shame. I think such a denomination would have some interesting and probably beneficial perspectives to share.
But given how Christianity has been male-led from the very beginning, how it stemmed from another male-led religion, and how engrained into American Christian society it is for women to be docile, obedient child production machines… Yeah, that ain’t happening for a looong time!
It’d be faster to turn Wicca into a women led mainstream religion than to wait for another millenium or two for Christians to give women a leading role.
Obviously you don’t baptise babies in Gatorade, you use Mountain Dew Baja Blast.
These damn simpletons
If a Catholic AI won’t be allowed to officiate my wedding, at least Taco Bell will host it. So we’re still not far from Idiocracy!
Didn’t molest any kids, making him the best clergy member in the church.
You don’t know that, he could’ve sent some kids AI generated nudes.
Christians are remarkably inconsistent about what is natural and good or unnatural and bad.
True, although I’m guessing "you can’t baptize someone in Gatorade’ would be something virtually all Christians would think.
If my hasty checking is valid, there’s nothing in the Bible about holy water. There’s holding a baptism, but nothing about holy men blessing water to imbue it with the Holy Spirit.
As such, I assume that any liquid blessed by a priest might be considered holy.
Something something Godly Gatorade, Blessed Baja Blast etc.
