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In reply to the discussion: ALTERNET: Mitt Romney's ROLE AS MORMON BISHOP Shows His EXTEMIST Religious Beliefs [View all]knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)The only part of the Holy Trinity known to be male was Jesus. We think of the Father as Father, but applying our limited binary thought patterns to something like God is ridiculous. I know many Christians, male and female, who refer to God as Mother, and many think of the Holy Spirit as ultimately feminine.
The Church didn't start out sexist. Women were to be considered equals (which is how Jesus treated us), and they were. We had women priests, women deacons, women in positions of power all over the Church. When the scandals started rocking the Church, and as the Church started to spread more thoroughly into patriarchal societies (Greek, Roman, etc.), well, that's when we were booted from power. The theology isn't sexist, just the practice of many churches now.