I don’t know if you have noticed how organized religion keeps compromising in an effort to keep people in the church. I am not referring to one specific religion either. If you are part of the religion, these compromises are probably the most logical thing to do. However, looking in from the outside, sometimes I can only shake my head. I remember many years ago, in the 70’s, the furor that women caused in my congregation by actually going to church with a bare head. The rule was that a woman had to cover her head when entering a church, but a man had to take his hat off. Why? What is wrong with a woman’s hair? And why the different treatment for men and women? But the church could not stop the trend and had to change the rule. Today women go to church without hats. I once went into the cathedral in Cologne where a male tourist was instructed by a stern-faced cleric to remove his hat. I was tempted to take that same hat and put it on my head, just to see whether I would also b
