Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00254)

Bart, I am not saying and did not say the RC church teaches women don't have souls.
They are an example however of patriachy and how women have not been empowered 
fully into that power structure.
What is the rationale for beleiving women cant "consecrate" the host for example?
Would this give women too much power......its a question of degrees of disempowerment. 

As far as I know no religion including the Roman church has sunk to such an extreme level 
of disempowerment by suggesting women dont have a soul, and I would hope no 
theosophical author has ever made such suggestions and then presented them in 
publications as being 'theosophical'.

Perry





--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Perry Coles wrote:
> > To deny that women have a soul is an outrageous extension of this
> > mindset and has implications that are violent, meaning cable of
> > causing injury to put it lightly. How do you treat a `soulless'
> > creature ? What implications does this have.
> 
> Nothing you have written has anything to do with whether or not the 
> Roman Catholic Church believes that a woman has a soul. HOWEVER: all 
> babies get baptised, male and female. If the Roman Catholic Church 
> believed that women didn't have souls, THEN WHY DO THEY BAPTISE THEM???????
> 
> Bart