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Christian Patriarchy Movement Shackles Daughters to Fathers, Homes

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lostlakehiker12/01/2010 11:20:54 am PST

What a wonderful and educational thread! The article that sparked it was a discussion of a “Christian Patriarchy” movement. The link mentions a fact that didn’t make it into this discussion: the movement has a following numbered in the mere tens of thousands.

Now it’s a pity it has even that many, because it’s essentially a westernized version of binding women’s feet. The good news is that for the most part, even fundamentalist Christians understand their own Holy Writ [taking into account whatever can be learned about context, and that will include Jewish oral law] well enough to see that the point of verse after verse is that in a Biblical traditional marriage, the woman is a partner, not a subordinate. She works, not just at secondary or make-work tasks, but on high-stakes matters. She makes decisions. She advises—-and what is advice good for, unless there is the real potential that upon reflection, the person getting the advice will recognize that his own understanding has been flawed and must be tempered and modified, if not reversed?