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[blaeey]

There was a book called 'Passionate Housewives desperate for God' by two women who were hardcore dominionists, and belong to a cult called Vision Forum, which preaches that women must not go to college or get a job but to remain under the 'protection' of their father/husband (and from what I heard, the pastor Doug Philips acts and sounds flamboyant and fits the stereotype of a effeminate misogynistic guy (not to mention they don't believe in giving women communion but only their male relative gives it to them (more like idolatrous patriocentricity)

This book also says that 'Biblical housewives are not brow-beaten, mind-numbed drudges who perform their duties like preprogramed robots, but instead have a passion to lovingly serve their families in a purposeful, intelligent manner' what?

Is that all churches teach? women's only role is to be mothers and homemakers? I have nothing against stay-at-home women, heck my mother is one, and also a babysitter, but she's more of a matriarch in my family. And what about the women who served God and did not lived as housewives? like Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Katherine the Great, Aimee Semple Mcpherson, In the Book of Judges there's Deborah the Prophetess and General in the Israeli army (which by the way the Vision Forum slanders by saying that she was actually a punishment because of an earlier biblical quote that if Israel is sinful 'women and children will rule over you' and the men would have no power (why are they so obsess with male power a lot?)

thank God that I'm a Christian feminist who prays to the Virgin Mary.

[plys]

Sucks, doesn't it?

[achimelech51]

Certainly not. Mainstream liberal Christianity -- Episcopalianism, Presbyterianism, etc. -- does not preach that women should be wives and mothers only. Even the Roman Catholic Church recognizes that women must often work for both financial reasons and because it may be essential to a woman's sense of personal identity.

[emek]

My church doesnt encourage women to be stay at home moms. At my church women and men are treated equally. Sure plenty of women at my church are passionate homemakers but that it just what they want to do. Some churches dont even believe that women should talk at church though and i think that is ridiculous.

[colfre]

Not every church, but that is what the Bible teaches. It says its a shame for women to speak in church and not to permit women to teach or have authority over men.

I really wonder how female Christians handle these verses and can still call the Bible good. The OT is even worse.

[mate]

Praying to the virgin mary wont get you a inch closer to heaven. Saints are dead people only Jesus is alive and is the only way to heaven and to the Father. THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

[jan46]

The Holy Bible does not say that. By ANY means! Men and women ARE advised to marry, though (but it's not a requirement at all).
Many churches preach things that are not of the Bible. You need to be picky when choosing the right church to go to. Ever heard of the Westboro Baptist Church? Those people are by NO means Christians. Jesus himself spent his time with "tax collectors and sinners" in the New Testament. We're supposed to love everyone, according to the Bible.

[troyes]

Men were to take care of women and God did that because a pregnant woman is pretty helpless.
They did not have birth control which I feel God allowed to be discovered.
Also, a woman with a tiny baby is also helpless, so God allowed men to have wives to protect women not to be mean to them.
But today women who are christians the bible says a single person is a gift from God.
So it was not necessary for a woman to get married. Those who did so realized marriage is a gift from God. Not to be a burden or to be abused just the oposite a man should protect a woman.

However, today christians want their children including girls to be educated and able to support themselves.