KLRU
Women Should Be Subservient to Men?
RECEIVED Tue., Aug. 22, 2006
Dear Editor,
This just in from that zany bunch of Christers who subscribe to the doctrine that women should be subservient to men. According to CNN, the First Baptist Church in Watertown, N.Y., has fired a Sunday school teacher who had taught there for 54 years. Her offense? She's a woman.
You see, according to 2 Timothy, women cannot instruct men. Never mind that every man alive who is fortunate enough to have had a mother and has learned many valuable lessons from that woman. Never mind that the authorship of 2 Timothy is in dispute within the academic community, or that the content of the Bible was put together by a "committee" of men. Baptists will be literalists, whenever it suits them.
I predict that eventually, Baptists will come out in favor of gun control, when they've shot themselves in the foot enough times.
This just in from that zany bunch of Christers who subscribe to the doctrine that women should be subservient to men. According to CNN, the First Baptist Church in Watertown, N.Y., has fired a Sunday school teacher who had taught there for 54 years. Her offense? She's a woman.
You see, according to 2 Timothy, women cannot instruct men. Never mind that every man alive who is fortunate enough to have had a mother and has learned many valuable lessons from that woman. Never mind that the authorship of 2 Timothy is in dispute within the academic community, or that the content of the Bible was put together by a "committee" of men. Baptists will be literalists, whenever it suits them.
I predict that eventually, Baptists will come out in favor of gun control, when they've shot themselves in the foot enough times.
Ben Hogue
