07-10-2022, 10:43 PM
Quote: @"AGRforever" said:
I was raised Lutheran and now attend an evangelical non- denominational church. Women have always played a pivotal role in the five churches I have attended in my lifetime and always been highly respected. Would change churches if anything less.@"Vikergirl" said:
I’m a Lutheran. We actually attend a Methodist church for unrelated reasons. My kids attend nondenominational Christian school.@"AGRforever" said:
I am not saying all churches are like that, I am saying not all churches are good. There are good churches, my mom found one later. I am saying there is a lot of misogyny associated with church in multiple denominations. There is a lot of generational trauma due to the perversion and distortion of religion. There are a lot of false prophets our there passing on misogyny. It is important to call out the inequality. There are also cultural differences in some Christian denominations that allow the misogyny to continue. I am just saying this happens and it is significant. Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Evangelical and many others have this as a foundation of their structure.@"Vikergirl" said:
I am circling back to the misogyny in various churches for a minute. I remember my mom telling me about the nuns beating her for her accent. Thankfully she never lost it because it is a part of who she is. She just told me about how they didn't want the girls to read the Bible in the church because they didn't want them to know what was inside it, they wanted blind followers. She has read it voraciously since leaving. I remember being told not to ask questions at church. I recently spoke with a Baptist girl going through a forced pregnancy and she mentioned that her church told her that she wasn't supposed to know things about the Bible unless the church allowed it. There are no restrictions on the Bible for boys or men from these shared experiences. I am going to watch that documentary about the Hillsong scandal. It is interesting to hear young people talk about how their churches are problematic. If someone is attending a church that treats its females as some second class citizen then the people need to leave that church. Neither my family or I would put up with that.
That doesnt however, mean that all churches teach that or think that way. I mean theres churches that hold snakes as well. That doesn’t mean its normal.
We wouldn’t put up with any church or school for that matter treating women any differently.