I have always enjoyed Silas House’s writing and I am particularly pleased with this (golden) nugget of a blog that he has going. I am in complete agreement with the following excerpt, although I don’t know that I ever watched my mom nod her head at such things. Nor do I ever recall going to a church that preached this particular passage.
I hated it when the preacher would talk about the way women were inferior, referring to the verse I Corinthians 11:3 that reads “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.” What I hated even more was the way the women in the audience would agree, nodding their heads and calling out “Amen, brother!” I hated that my mother agreed with this, and lived by it.
He goes on to all the other things he heard preached about as a child and his general outlook on those topics when he was a child. It rings of truth. My best friend in college was a Women Studies minor. I am sure that her parents must have mentioned this to her preacher, because the one time she went to church with them he preached the “evils” of feminism. She walked out. I think I would have to. How women continue to sit and nod through those sermons I will never quite know.
I just think it screams domestic violence.
