1-7-1 “Women can’t be Roman Catholic or Mormon priests”
1-7-1 “Women can’t be Roman Catholic or Mormon priests”
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> *God:* Corporations can pay two people vastly different wages for doing the same job, for instance. They can pay one person $57,000 a year while paying the other $42,000 a year, for performing the exactly identical function, giving one employee more than the other simply because the first employee has something the second employee does not.
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> *Neale:* What’s that?
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> *God:* A penis.
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> *Neale:* Oh.
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> *God:* Yes. Oh, indeed.
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> *Neale:* But You don’t understand. Having a penis makes the first employee more valuable than the second; quicker witted, smarter by half, and, obviously, more capable.
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> *God:* Hmmm. I don’t remember constructing you that way. I mean, so unequal in abilities.
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> *Neale:* We'll , You did, and I’m surprised You don’t know it. Everyone on this planet knows it. You mean You’re not? Well , we are! The people on this planet are. That’s why women can’t be Roman Catholic or Mormon priests, or show up on the wrong side of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, or climb to the top job in Fortune 500 companies, or pilot airliners, or—
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> (CWG 2:132)
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In Conversations with God, the issue of gender discrimination appears repeatedly throughout the text.
The above dialogue occurs in a discussion about wage inequality between men and women.
God points out that in human society, men are often paid more than women even when performing the same work.
Neale then argues that this is only natural because men are “more capable” than women.
In response, God firmly denies such a notion, explaining that while each gender possesses unique qualities, neither is inherently superior to the other.
God emphasizes that in the act of creation, He did not design humanity with male superiority.
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