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submitted 1 year ago by deacon@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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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[-] deacon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I suppose I'm a former actual Christian, raised in the church, homeschooled K-12, not SBC but not unfamiliar with it. Point is, I know enough to know that modern Christianity is the accumulation of a series of compromises, concessions, and reinterpretations of the eternal Word of God over the centuries.

Interpreted literally, that passage also outlaws woman from teaching even Sunday School, much less my mom from Home Schooling me. Certainly I should have been in authority over her by the time I was, what, 13?

So basically, I appreciate and respect the perspective, but I'm not entirely buying it as a rational explanation for this.

[-] Lonnie123@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but I’m not entirely buying it as a rational explanation for this.

This literally could go for anything in the Bible. As the person said, the Bible is the word of God, Christians follow the Bible without questioning the word of God. It is, inherently, not based on rational, it is based on Authority.

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