What you fail to understand SoulSick is that husbands in a manner of speaking submit to their wives too. If you think the good Christian man watches the Super Bowl instead of take care of his wife if she is having a hard time that night, you have another thing coming. A wife is for the good husband to take care for.
The white Southerners loved to preach ad nauseum how the African American Southerners oughtta be good Christians and submit to their white brethren, but a halfa truth (even when it is true_ is a lie because it takes everything out of context. Just like the half truth that most types of sexual behavior is unacceptable to God, they are, but...
a. The whites would be horrified to know that Jesus would expect them to toil in the fields of their African American brothers too, to make them rich, or better yet, eliminate disparities of wealth altogether. That brings justification for slavery crashing down.
b. Yes, God has His attitude about human behavior and who is going to criticize it?
What does God think about homosexuality, abortion.....
Anything He damn well wants, presuming He exists.
But, elsewhere in Bible makes clear that hating your brother makes you a murderer on the fast track to Hell (no murderer has eternal life)
Justification for attacking a human being (malice in word or action) who happens to be GLBT comes crashing down
c. Several places, husbands and wives submit to each others, parents and children submit to each other
Justification for Lazy Boy Bob Dad comes crashing down, yes you, Dad
If there is a heaven and a hell and a God, atheism does not make hell go away. I guess we will all figure it out in the end.
The Church has been male dominated for a very long time; its good to see the ordination of women by the Church of England. I'm sure it'll only be a matter of time we'll see a female bishop. The female clergy I've come across have been at least as good as the men. But even now there's still resistance to women vicars from some quarters.
Hey, you wanna see some fur fly?
Google search my pastor.
Martha Phillips Baptist
Lots of Baptist men in a tizzy fit up and down the East Coast of USA.
You see, 2000 years ago it offended (mostly men) when women spoke up in church and exercised leadership in church, and now, it offended (mostly women but quite a few men too) when we're trying to shut up women who want to be pastors.
http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/southernba...ention.htm
The general principle Apostle Paul was using with eating meat and Christians who believed it was a sin to eat meat offered to idols (even today Seventh Day Adventists will thank you if you save the meat for later) was:
It is more important to restrict your freedom than it is to cause your Christian brother to have a tizzy fit over his lack of faith. Save your energy for spreading the Word of God.
I know Pastor Martha Phillips. I'm sure she weighed the pros and cons carefully.
Maybe today we would say, to the men, let the women speak, do not offend them, hold your peace. We know that women on average have superior skills with things like empathizing, teaching, social skills, managing, persuasion, negotiation, the soft skills, patience maybe, they do end up doing most of the kid raising in the Western world. And none of this is valued very much judging from what we pay day care, teaching, nursing, social work professionals.
Exception: If the guy is romantically lonely or doesn't know how lonely he is because he is studying his brains out, and therefore vulnerable, DON'T SEND WONDER WOMAN SEND SUPERMAN.
Me too alectrum, I found a Creationist textbook at a Christian school yard sale, gave it to my anthropology prof. But the despising was a personal grudge and we made up over it, after I earned a respect for God and got saved myself.
I used to think my Christian sister was way off the deep end the way she thought crystals were bad (like Kryptonite) or harmful to my religious health. Imagine her saying.... "Oh no! You've got the MARK OF THE BEAST!!!"
Relax, that's just where the cat scratched me last night.
Cat do not disturb sign
Unless you want the mark of the beast
do not touch me while I am sleeping
thank you
Cat no-oral-medicine policy
No matter how long we have been friends or how much I love you
if you try to give me oral antibiotics for something like a runny nose
I will give you my Mark
Cat let me trim the tips off her front claws on Friday night. I think it is her way of saying she is sorry she clawed me while I was sleeping Thursday night.
Wow!! Something's moving under the covers!!! Pounce on it!
Owww!!! Chloe!!!!!
Sorry, human, reaaalllyyy sooorrrryyy.....
The desire to believe or to not believe is a big part of believing or not believing
A famous black comedian, Dick Gregory, had a joke about the KKK.....
He was at a diner.... "We don't serve black people."
"That's OK, I don't eat black people,, bring me a whole fried chicken."
Dick goes on to explain to the audience about the three cousins Ku, Kluck, and Klan, saying, whatever you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you. Then the waitress says, yeah, whatever you do to that chicken, we're gonna to do you.
Dick kissed the chicken.
(back cover of one of his books)
A more careful reading of the New Testament shows Jesus the Son of God to have many characteristics of women (nuturing children, also the humility of foot washing). Also do not forget that the crucifixion process was torturous, quite painful, and in fact did kill Him (everyone's new birth, compare to childbirth)- and to think He refused the wine mixed with gall (the anesthetic of the day).
What does the mindful Christian need with a goddess? We have Jesus.
If the masculinity of Yahweh scares one away from Christianity, one would do well to consider that Jesus, and the Holy Spirit to comfort and counsel us Christians in absence of Jesus (baby sitter) are also part of God.
People who are scared off by the masculinity of "God" do not understand the Christian "God" or God concept at all.
Mary the woman who bore and raised Jesus (when a human) is not a goddess either. She did her part, and it was a big one, for the Kingdom of Christ, and probably has a vast reward in heaven. But she is still only mortal.
Ditto the Saints. In fact, saint is used by Protestants to refer to any believer.
I can recognize that there are many positive attributes anyone of either gender may have. I'm glad we don't have women in movies anymore that have the submissive roles, screaming in the terror movies like the original King Kong.
That was what men paid to see in 1933?
Jesus would appeal to many goddess-inclined people, if they gave Him a chance. A perfect example of love as one would love a child (even the yuck factor, washing feet or changing diapers), patient love, and giving new life to every Christian.