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Southern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see the either you’re with us or against us mentality is alive and well. :/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Part of me wonders if this is just me getting older and well into the "back in my day" stage of life when I worry that things are getting significantly worse. But it really feels like this poor country is in a serious backward arc and I'm genuinely worried for my kids.

[–] Grant_M 2 points 2 years ago

Christofascism is making its final stand.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (33 children)

Actual Christian here. This decision is not extreme, whatsoever, though I get that it appears extreme to non-believers and feminists. The thing to understand here is that Christians follow the Bible. And conversely, those who do not follow the Bible are not Christian. So let's take a look at a relevant Bible passage:

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

(1 Timothy 2:11-12)

Now that's the word of God. It's eternal, unchanging, and dictates how He wills us to live.

It's definitely out-of-step with modern secular culture, and that's a very good thing from the Christian perspective. We are God's peculiar people (Titus 2:11-15).