[Leica] Was Foot Washing, Now Abrahamic Faiths

[bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)]

Sorry...didn't finish...What I was trying to say is that I find it
fascinating that the same people who have no problem calling a Roman
Catholic Bishop a bigot, or intolerant for adhering to the beliefs of his
church would no more think of calling bigoted or intolerant Muslim cleric
who insist that women wear traditional head dress, or Orthodox Jews who
insist that women dress a certain way.


On 4/14/06 7:35 PM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:

> That's hardly "bigoted." what don't people get abt the fact that the Roman
> Catholic Church is an extremely conservative, hierarchical, male dominated,
> non-democratic institution whose leader is believed to be God's
> representative on earth? It's not a cafeteria plan religion; it's the
> Pope's way or the highway.Period. I find it fascinating that people would
> call a Bishop who adhears to tradition 'intolerant,' but wouldn't think of
> cbigot
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> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:35:12 -0500 "Arche, Harvey" <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org>
> wrote:
> "I think Barney's issue is with a Bishop who says that a priest carrying
> out the foot washing ritual can only perform it on men, and women can't
> have their feet washed. Unless I missed something.
> "Arche
> "
> "B.D. wrote:
> "Good Lord, Barney - the man's a "bigot" or "intolerant" because he doesn't
> "believe that according to scripture women should wash feet? How do you
> "figure that?
> "
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