People that cling to the biblical notion of women's roles really don't understand Christian history very well.
First of all, Jesus did not differentiate between men and women in his ministry - he taught all equally, along with the poor, the weak and the infirm. There is strong evidence that he did indeed have women disciples, mainly Mary Magdeline, but that this fact has been scrubbed from what has become the accepted biblical text. The other thing is that Jesus made men and women equal in marriage, stating that if a man leaves a woman, he is also guilty of adultery, something that was not recognized in Jewish law. The other thing is that so many point to the teachings of Paul; however, Paul was a prophet - he wasn't Jesus, and to elevate his to the status of Jesus for this particular issue is ridiculous. And what so many don't realize is that for the first 300 years in which Christianity was growing as a religion, it wasn't the religious men of power who kept it going, it was the women, along with the others Jesus taught who were not welcome in the regular religious establishments. There were women priests and prophets and ministers all over the land. It wasn't until the Emporer Constatine incorporated Christianity as the official religion of Rome did women lose their power within the religion; Christianity lost its all inclusiveness, and, just like the other monotheistics, became a religion dictated by men. So for Christian religions to endorse this crap is hypocritical, but so be it - just as long as they don't force me to act this way, because it ain't happening. On Jan 13, 6:04 am, "florida mike !" <[email protected]> wrote: > Women's Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism > Is > Bornhttp://www.truthout.org/011209WA > This October, more than 6,000 women gathered in Chicago for the True > Woman Conference '08: a stadium-style event to promote what its > proponents call biblical womanhood, complementarianism, or - most > bluntly - the patriarchy movement. > > Women gathering to support the patriarchy movement? It's > evangelical counterculture at its most contrarian. > > The Associated Baptist Press explains the relationship of > biblical > womanhood to feminism, highlighting an ambitious initiative that > arose > from the meeting: a signature-drive seeking 100,000 women to endorse > its "True Woman Manifesto," which, the ABP writes, aims "at sparking > a > counter-revolution to the feminist movement of the 1960s." > > To outside observers of the patriarchy movement, the starkness of > the calls for gender hierarchy often seem amusingly outdated (not to > mention historically misleading: feminist blogs Feministing and > Pandagon have deftly dismantled some of the speakers' "Leave it to > Beaver" idealizations of the 1950s as a time when women were > universally protected). > > For the rest of Kathryn Joyce's exploration of evangelical anti- > feminism, please click here. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
