I had someone say to me tonight that women should be allowed to be priests in the Catholic church, because "it was just Paul saying otherwise". I didn't want to pick a fight, but it warrants writing about, even just briefly.

Peter was quite literally the rock upon whom Jesus built the Church-- and Peter trusted Paul implicitly. So if you were to rank, out of the countless billions of human beings who have come and gone, all people according to "likelihood to have been divinely inspired", then line them all up like a huge downward mountain slope, surely Paul would be way, way, way up there at the summit-- like, top ten of literally all time or something, right?

At that point it becomes a question of, "why believe anything in the Bible?" Why believe the Gospels, or even the Old Testament? I mean, it was just Luke, right? C'mon, it was just Moses, for goodness sake! Let's get real here!

And that leads me to my next point: this person isn't Catholic-- and isn't even Christian. She doesn't believe the Bible. So criticisms of the Church just comes across as concern trolling. And few things are more irritating than concern trolling, if I'm honest, no matter what the subject.

Now my final point: who cares if women can't become priests? Like, quite literally-- why should anyone care? Prove it to me that I should care. Men can't become sisters. So what? I don't care about that either. How many women did Jesus select as Apostles? Both men and women have plenty of roles to play within the Church-- there is plenty to go around.