Not so different…

Talk about domination.  These catholic nun really worked in numbers.  One thing that really catches my attention is the similarity in religious women then and religious women now.  I was not raised in Catholic school and I don’t know much about traditional Catholic customs but I can tell you That I was raised in a small town southern baptist church and while hardly any of the customs are the same, there is one that is.  Women in today’s churches seem more prevalent than men, hands down.  I have always wondered, growing up why it was always a male preacher, and while there were men in the church, there were many more women.

Maybe this phenomenon has carried over.  Other than The tradition of classes among the nuns (black veils and white veils)Maybe this is why when I am back home I feel overwhelmed in church merely because of the number of old women breathing down my neck.  I am a very religious person but I feel that females, being more emotional beings, have different feelings for church and religion than men. Could it be a comfort thing? Possibly. Are women just more religious? Could be that too.  Either way you look at it, the domination of women in the Catholic church was very ordinary and evangelism  spread like a wild fire.

The whole dominance of there church in general truly makes me feel lucky that I do not live in a time like this.  I can’t imagine an environment where the church rules everything.