(March 3, 2013 at 11:06 am)jstrodel Wrote: Whether in fact men are to be given greater spiritual authority than women, I believe is very probable. I grew up in a feminist home in which my mother and father both had equal say in what happened. The result was chaos, they fought all the time, there was no peace, there was no sense of order. My dad bought into feminist values to a large degree and there was a sense that equality between genders was something that was stressed.
Was this the right way to run a family? Well, it created a lot of problems, as I said, there was a lot of chaos. Men and women are biologically different and there is biblical evidence for treating them as being different, although many Christians do not read the Bible the way that the man in the video said.
And families headed by men are never chaotic or full of fighting, right? There are a lot of reasons that families break down.
Quote:He assumes that a fundamentalist approach to scripture is the only one that is Christian. This is a typical atheist lie, that in order to be a Christian, you have to read the Bible and take every single thing literally, and not study the traditions and culture that informs the Word of God. Of course, the person on the video does not do this, he is more concerned with getting a laugh out of people than being accurate.
Honestly, even if the culture/time that the Bible was written in was so down on women, would it still be okay for the Bible to include passages so hateful towards women? I can't really imagine a scenario where it would be justified to write the things that are in the Bible.
