(August 8, 2017 at 8:30 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 8, 2017 at 9:47 am)Astonished Wrote: Encouraging someone who's been brainwashed into accepting a role as a perpetual inferior and submissive servant to continue to embrace that demeaning identity and not aspire to anything loftier? Maybe I read between the lines a bit too heavily but that's what I got out of it. Carry on.
Being a stay at home mom/wife does not make someone inferior to the person who works outside the home. That's your own prejudiced opinion. Each couple is free to do what works for them and what they are comfortable with. There is no objective right or wrong here.
Yes I agree, but a stay at home dad isn't thought of as equally. Outside that, I agree it is what works between the couple, not what others think.
What we ARE saying however, is when you consider the context of the time that book was written, girls/women were expected to be submissive to the males in their family. Even inheritance went to the first born male not the females in the family. The bible in no way reflects our modern morality. Our modern morality came about as a result of ignoring the sexist passages in the bible, not by enforcing them or taking them literally.
But sure nothing wrong with being a stay at home spouse, but if you are justifying that through your religion then you are putting yourself in a position of antiquated morality. If you are basing your stay at home position solely on you, and not what that book says, then sure, nobody should have a problem with it.
We are arguing your logic, not your rights. As far as rights go nobody is going to stop you.
