I have to actually coherently say something, but, I mean, I thought this was basic fundamentalist Christianity that all the holiness was linked to the Male. God is Male, Jesus is Male, Mary was just a conduit. Catholics, whom I always privately gave points to for basically deifying Mary, were considered by Protestants to not be 'really' Christian for precisely that 'idolatry'. I remember pointing out to my mother a museum display of 'cave people' having a religious ceremony and saying it would be interesting if the woman was leading it instead of the man, and my mother said, "God said that men lead in church" .
One of the many reasons I left was the strict unbreakable division between women and anything sacred. I saw churches full of women being told every Sunday, prayer meeting, and Saturday symposium that MEN, not us, were in God's image.
I -- I am wowed that Jim Rigby said this, that he was allowed, that such thought can even exist.
I am, as the youth say, shook.
my whole childhood --
I have to actually coherently say something, but, I mean, I thought this was basic fundamentalist Christianity that all the holiness was linked to the Male. God is Male, Jesus is Male, Mary was just a conduit. Catholics, whom I always privately gave points to for basically deifying Mary, were considered by Protestants to not be 'really' Christian for precisely that 'idolatry'. I remember pointing out to my mother a museum display of 'cave people' having a religious ceremony and saying it would be interesting if the woman was leading it instead of the man, and my mother said, "God said that men lead in church" .
One of the many reasons I left was the strict unbreakable division between women and anything sacred. I saw churches full of women being told every Sunday, prayer meeting, and Saturday symposium that MEN, not us, were in God's image.
I -- I am wowed that Jim Rigby said this, that he was allowed, that such thought can even exist.
This one is going to stick with me.
Re: I am, as the youth say, shook.