Megachurch Pastor Preaches for Women to Submit: ‘You’re a Nag’ Like Chinese Water Torture
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The founding pastor of a Washington state megachurch on Sunday told female parishioners that God wanted them to submit to their husbands and that they shouldn’t be a “nag,” likening them to Chinese water torture.
In in a Sunday sermon, Mars Hill Church Pastor Mark Driscoll said that people often misunderstood the Bible’s teachings on what it meant for a wife to “submit” to her husband.
“Number one, it does not mean that the wife is less valuable, intelligent, or competent,” he explained. “Number two, this does not mean that men, in general, are to be ruling over women in general. It doesn’t mean that. We’re not talking about gender issues; we’re talking about marriage issues.”
“This does mean that a wife sets a pattern for others to respect her husband,” Driscoll opined. “If the wife disrespects the husband in front of his coworkers, will they respect the husband? No. No. Women who publicly disrespect their husbands encourage others to disrespect their husbands. And this doesn’t mean you don’t disagree with your husband but you do so respectfully, privately.”
The pastor added that women who disrespected their husband in front of others put men in a “lose-lose scenario” because “if he doesn’t argue back, he’s being weak.”
“Men with men, it’s not like this. You disrespect me, we can talk about that, right? We can actually have a bit of a debate about that.”
Driscoll went on to talk about how the book of Proverbs described “certain kinds of women.”
“They’re quarrelsome. They’re a nag,” he said. “And some women — you’re a nag. You’re disrespectful. You’re quarrelsome. Being married to you is like a life sentence, and the guy’s just scratching on his wall every day.”
