(April 30, 2014 at 11:42 am)xpastor Wrote: Actually the Big Book of Multiple Choice allows both yes and no.
In one of Paul's authentic letters (1 Corinthians) he speaks of women "prophesying" (preaching) in church, and the only condition he puts on it is that they wear a head covering.
In one of the letters forged in his name (1 Timothy) the author says that women should just shut up in church. Ask their husbands when they go home.
You're quite right - I was forgetting the doublethink nature of the beast. Two (at least) totally contradictory 'teachings' on just about everything and the faithful are forced to hold both of them as true simultaneously.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'