While many may argue that the Roman Catholic clergy is a pyramid
-like stucture with the Pope at the top, descending downwards through
the Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops...and thence to the Parish
priests...and priests....... at least this religion attests to the
equality of men& women before God ( the laiety) regardless of of their
class in real life.
I have yet to hear a similar decleration of any any Hindu
leader ( Sankarachaya ...or similar leader)......I suspect that this is
due to the pyramidical structure among the Hindu followers that
observes a strict caste system that relegates many tribals and lower
classes to the least desired jobs ( read scavengers of human and and
animal waste ) and hence a way to bar them from the temples that the
higher castes attend. I`m sure that if we asked the VHP/ RSS about
this the would be a silence as equality is not what Hinduism is
about ?
