I love God -- but there are times I cannot stand his church.
Reading a commentary on 1st Corinthians should not reduce me to tears. Trying to explain the frustration of being female in this movement should not be so incomprehensible to male members.
One reason slavery is a damned institution is that the moment you subject another to yourself, you begin to see them as somehow less human, less in the image of God.
Some would have the woman be literally selfless in the most degraded, debased way. Obedience in all things, regardless.
Patriarchalists make the faith unpalatable. Whether a woman would want to be "nurtured and cared for" by her husband becomes a moot point; it is now so tied to the false hierarchy that women run from that model for fear of perpetuating a dehumanization.
Or aren't we 'adam,' too?
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