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Originally posted by cashmoney
I don't know how many of you realize it or not....but until John Paul the popes believed women to be of lesser equal to men in a sense. The popes in the past looked at mary as a whore/prostitute and thus looked down on her and women in general. John Paul called her "a true inspiration" and looked up to her in a sense.
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Originally posted by adduncan
CM--
Being inspired is great, but if you're not Catholic, let's not try to teach what any pope has allegedly taught. You missed the mark on a number of points. (No, I will NOT get into it in public because there are plenty of threads to search on and there's enough BS floating around GC already.
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Originally posted by cashmoney
Well I am RC. And what mark did I miss?
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When, in a Christian context, one refers simply to "Mary," the assumption is that one is referring to Mary, the Mother of Christ (aka, the "Blessed Virgin"). Given the whore/prostitute reference, I'll assume you meant Mary Magdalene instead. While it is certainly true that Mary Magdalene has historically been conflated in popular opinion and by many theologians with two other women in the Gospels -- one of whom is idenfitied as a "sinner" -- to say that popes in the past looked at her as a prostitute and looked down at women in general is a rather Dan Brownesque overgeneralization, not to mention a sidestepping of Mary Magdalene's role in the Easter story.