Out on a Limb?
Oh no - I won't share no blog with no feminist...
Okay - you can stay, just lay off the radical statements.
Wait a minute. Women are people too? Valued as individuals? Image of God? Equal in rights to men? Um...okay...where's the feminist part?
Paul, who was perhaps more chauvistic than Bob Jones, even wrote that in Christ there is neither MALE nor FEMALE. Sounds like equal rights to me. Maybe men and women should have different roles in, say, child rearing or household management, but honestly - where in the Bible does it say inferior?
Oh - the guys like the "wives submit to your husbands" part - forgetting that RIGHT before that Paul wrote "submit yourselves to ONE ANOTHER" and missing the whole "husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church..." He freaking died for the Church - set His EVERYTHING aside for US. Husbands, do that for your wives... No, really, it's in there...
The part about modern feminism that I don't like is the "Men are worthless" part - it's just reverse-oppression - we used to be oppressed - but now we have power so we will become the oppressors... I don't like the whole idea that men and women are entirely equal. Now, before you crucify me, hear me out. There are biological differences that we can't deny - women bear children - I wouldn't want that even if I could do it. I'm a wimp, no doubt about it. Men are less likely to nurturing, more likely to be physically stronger. Women are more likely to be relational. There are a lot of differences, most of them are not absolutes (I'm more relational than some women I know, for example) but there are differences. We aren't just "exactly the same under the skin." NOTE - that I won't insist that one is better - I'd give the edge to women if you pushed me, frankly. I don't like womanist theology - I forget her name but she made the statement that "a man dying on a cross is NOT sufficient for her salvation." Basically, no man can make a sacrifice for her - it has to be a woman...or something...
So - you're really talking about good old fashioned Christianity - before we church people got involved and mucked it all up...
Oh - hey, lay off the pipe though. C.S. Lewis didn't realize that Jesus wouldn't smoke - remember, Lewis started out as an athiest...
Okay - you can stay, just lay off the radical statements.
Wait a minute. Women are people too? Valued as individuals? Image of God? Equal in rights to men? Um...okay...where's the feminist part?
Paul, who was perhaps more chauvistic than Bob Jones, even wrote that in Christ there is neither MALE nor FEMALE. Sounds like equal rights to me. Maybe men and women should have different roles in, say, child rearing or household management, but honestly - where in the Bible does it say inferior?
Oh - the guys like the "wives submit to your husbands" part - forgetting that RIGHT before that Paul wrote "submit yourselves to ONE ANOTHER" and missing the whole "husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church..." He freaking died for the Church - set His EVERYTHING aside for US. Husbands, do that for your wives... No, really, it's in there...
The part about modern feminism that I don't like is the "Men are worthless" part - it's just reverse-oppression - we used to be oppressed - but now we have power so we will become the oppressors... I don't like the whole idea that men and women are entirely equal. Now, before you crucify me, hear me out. There are biological differences that we can't deny - women bear children - I wouldn't want that even if I could do it. I'm a wimp, no doubt about it. Men are less likely to nurturing, more likely to be physically stronger. Women are more likely to be relational. There are a lot of differences, most of them are not absolutes (I'm more relational than some women I know, for example) but there are differences. We aren't just "exactly the same under the skin." NOTE - that I won't insist that one is better - I'd give the edge to women if you pushed me, frankly. I don't like womanist theology - I forget her name but she made the statement that "a man dying on a cross is NOT sufficient for her salvation." Basically, no man can make a sacrifice for her - it has to be a woman...or something...
So - you're really talking about good old fashioned Christianity - before we church people got involved and mucked it all up...
Oh - hey, lay off the pipe though. C.S. Lewis didn't realize that Jesus wouldn't smoke - remember, Lewis started out as an athiest...
posted by Pastor Bill at 7:00 PM
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