think think think said pooh bear

I just wanted to remember some of the dumb reasons we bring up in sunday school to explain the patriarchial order in the church. and remember that the church is an auxillary to the family. that the sabbath and any transcendant action is an auxillary to the individual and family. These options provide opportunity, but remember that a person doesn't become a car just because they sleep in the garage. We are not trying to become our options. We are using our options to develop our abilities. We need to increase our knowledge of our options. Hopefully we wont let the perceptions of our present options keep us from that increase of knowledge. The more knowledge, the more options, the more action, the more ability, the more ability, the more understanding, the more understanding, the more happiness and fullfillment.


One POV (a person who doesn't know?)

The official explanation is that women are kept from having the priesthood because women are more spiritual than men, therefore, men need to have the priesthood to teach them how to be better people (Johnson 86). Women are also told that, because they have the all- important ability to bear children, men need the power of the priesthood merely to remain equal with them.


Another POV (a person who knows?)

A misunderstanding of women’s roles in the Mormon Church is engendered by those who don’t know themselves and by those who wish to claim that the patriarchal order de facto creates suppression. This is false. While a coercive order (patriarchal or matriarchal) represses, such an order is outside every tenet of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Patriarchy is not synonymous with presumption and unrighteous power; it is an organized divine pattern for the release of power equally for men and women.