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Recently several southern Baptists ministers have stated that women involved in domestic violance should return to the home and that women experienceing sexual advances on their jobs should also return to running households and taking care of their children.

These options do not seem to address violent husbands and the crime they are committing nor the sexist boss who is using a position of power to place a women in a position of slavery to keep their job.Their option does not place a value on the woman's safety or value as an equal in this world.Rather they are a second class person who should submit to the man. In the second case a woman should not be seeking employment rather should be home making a family. This also makes the woman a second class person and does not address the fact that many women do not have a family or must support one on their own.In short, they do not recognize that life has many different facets and their very narrow vision of religion does not relate to the facts of life.

Marine 8 May 6
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They don't care about women being abused, because in their world view women are property. They're owned by their father until he hands them over to a husband. They have no inherent worth - they're just an adjunct to their current owner. Children are property, too, so they have no right to be free from abuse. Just a couple of the insidious bits of nastiness that are inherent to the Christian faith.

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They also do not address the reality that families cannot now make it one one income, nor the probability that some of these drunken wifebeaters are incapable of holding down a job anyway. More cloud cuckoo land crap!

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Ever since the days of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (ICBI), Chicago October 1978, attended and endorsed by the evangelical hot shots of the day (and some still alive, like John Mc Arthur, Piper etc), Bibliolatry has taken on a new level in becoming almost weird to defend.. Declaring obvious myths as factual truth, evangelical theology has digged itself into a pit from which escape is almost impossible. Read Bart Ehrmans story, or listen to Sam Harris Waking Up podcast #125.

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there were some changes since the '70's but a lot of things are reverting to the "good old days"

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