Slavery has been abolished by law, with no exceptions made for members of any church, not even the Catholic Church, to hold slaves. The very thought is intolerable. People do not have the right to own other people. Each person is valuable as an individual in his own right and is master of his own fate.
People of every race are people. Men and women are people. In every country live people. No person is higher than another person. Each is a miracle of God's creation, loved equally by God.
Dare I say, each person was created by God to be considered, by every other person created by God, to be worthy of being loved by each and every human being?
Did God ask each of us to treat each other one of us as a neighbor, and to love this neighbor as much as we love ourselves?
The highest love of a person would be to wish for them the highest joy and to spend our lives working toward their achievement of that joy. What higher joy than to spend one's human life in union with God?
The task of a priest is the highest task on earth, to bring other people to the joy that comes from a closeness with God.
The head of the Catholic Church, the pope, has said there will NEVER be female priests in the Catholic Church. Women have two X chromosomes and men have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. The pope has said that God has revealed that in order to receive the sacrament of the priesthood, there is something important about having one of each, both an X and a Y chromosome.
How is it possible that the Catholic Church believes that, among the job requirements for becoming a priest is included the physical manifestation of having a Y chromosome? Why has the Catholic Church institutionalized sexism?
Maybe it is all metaphor, on the microscopic level, represented by the X and the Y chromosomes.
Considering that, from what I understand of science, a Y chromosome is simply an X chromosome off from which a piece has been broken, so that it is really just an incomplete X chromosome, This essay will attempt to examine the evidence as to whether there might be any redeeming logic to salvage the papal argument for institutionalized sexism.
Eve, with two X chromosomes, represents woman. Adam, with one X and one Y chromosome, represents man.
God is represented by a single X chromosome, incomplete because God is lonely for a partner with whom to share the universe. God knew he was not perfect because he was lonely, so he created another had known to create an equal to himself, he would have created a creature with two X chromosomes, an Eve, rather than an Adam. Instead, he created an Adam, a human who was not a God and who shared with God a desire to not be alone throughout existence.
Adam was created by God to be God's mirror image. Eve was created by God out of Adam, at Adam's request, because Adam was lonely. Since Adam before the fall is a mirror image of God, God himself must have been lonely. He created man, to share the whole of existence with himself.
Since Adam represents God's idea of what a mirror image of God would be like, Adam's desire for company represents God's own loneliness. God's creation of Eve represents God's realization of what was missing in himself, someone to share existence with.
Eve represents the new perfection of God, who is no longer lonely, because Eve had a partner right from the very beginning of her existence. Her two X chromosomes represent God and his equal counterpart, existing happily together.
Eve has two X chromosomes, which represents the perfection of what it would be like if two Gods lived in equality of power and essence, no different from one another. The X chromosome represents the whole and perfect human of God's creation. This is Eve, but it is also what Adam and God inhabiting the universe together were like, while Adam was still living in Eden and in perfect obedience to God. At that point, Adam still had his two X chromosomes. Then God took a part of one of his X chromosomes in order to create Eve, leaving Adam with one X chromosome complete and one broken, his Y chromosome.
The Catholic Church has institutionalized sexism so that we don't forget that God made a mistake in creating a subservient person rather than another God to be equal to himself and to keep himself company in his existence. In a perfect existence, there would be two equal Gods to keep each other company. Only a man of broken chromosomes can represent this horrible reality, and bring humans to an understanding of God's brokenness.
The priesthood is a reminder that it takes a perfect God, represented by an X chromosome, and an imperfect and broken man, represented by the Y chromosome, to create a church, a bunch of fallible humans whose desire it is to be united with God. The Catholic Church allows only men to become priests because it feels that only a chromosomally incomplete person can truly understand the yearning for the wholeness that is only possible when man is reunited with God.
The Y chromosome, when seen as a broken fragment of an X chromosome, represents the broken man, a creature who was perfect and whole, but now is lesser since the God part was torn off. Adam was the image of God himself, complete, yet alone as one God. The X chromosome represents the perfection of God's creation, man complete, before the God part was torn off. The Y chromosome represents man after his fall and in his subsequent banishment, roaming the earth apart from God. The part of man that is now missing and represents the manifestation of his imperfection is represented by the part of the X chromosome that is missing from the Y chromosome, the God which is missing from man's life.
Woman, who is comprised only of mirrored X chromosomes, represents perfection, that of a God who coexists with an equal, another God like himself.
In the beginning, God was existing in the grand existence but was not content enough to maintain himself by himself, so he started creating.
God created Adam, in his own image, and unsurprisingly, saw that Adam was not happy because he was lonely, just as God was lonely, or at least unsatisfied with simply existing by himself. Adam's loneliness represents the error in God's creation and in God himself. The whole and perfect man, as God had thought to create him, was not a whole and perfect man after all, because God had neglected to consider man's feelings. Adam began to see that having someone like oneself to love and spend his life with was more important than having been created and given life in the first place. God himself had seen that merely existing was not enough, that even God is drawn to having a partner to share it all with.
Metaphorically, this unhappy Adam represents God himself, as Adam was supposed to be a mirror image of God. God was lonely, not happy in his own existence, and therefore started creation.
The problem is that God did not create another God, to be his own equal and partner. He created a lesser being, either because he did not have the power to create another of his equal, or else in his urge to share his universe he did not think equality between himself and the one he would share the universe with was an important consideration.
Therefore, when we think of priests, as men, representing the imperfect creation of a God trying to create a mirror image of himself, we are reminded that God himself is less than perfect, because he is alone, somehow existing but without anything else existing to share that existence with.
The institutionalized sexism of the Catholic Church is a constant reminder that God, in isolation, is not perfect. The unmarried priest represents that a person can only be complete when joined with God, not with another person. Thus, the Catholic Church demands that the human priest act out the metaphor, in the sacrifice of the fulfillment of his own life in which marriage is denied, as a demonstration of the idealization that the only perfect marriage possible is that between God and the creation God made in order to give himself a partner in existence.
Thus, also, is denied gay marriage, since the idea is that imperfect man, the Y chromosome, cannot substitute for God. In the wholeness of God's desire, he created something different than himself to co-exist with himself. God did not create another God, which would have been two X chromosomes. Adam, the broken Y chromosome, cannot become a whole X chromosome by adding another Y chromosome, but only by adding the part missing from the X chromosome that resulted in the Y chromosome in the first place.
This logic essay is still in construction.
