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Showing Original Post only (View all)Right-Wing Pastor DEMANDS Women SHUT THEIR MOUTHS While Men Teach Them In Church [View all]
WARNING: Bite on a wooden spoon handle while watching this LOAD OF CRAP!!......
Conservatives are waging a vicious war against women across the country, and theyre using religion to do it. They say all politics begins at the local level. Apparently, the plague of sexism running rampant in GOP circles begins at church. Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona told female churchgoers to keep their mouths shut so that the men could teach them their place according to the Bible. During his Sunday sermon, Anderson mansplained that women should be silent in church and read two sexist Bible verses.
The first verse, 1 Timothy 2:11, says Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. The second verse is 1 Corinthians 14 which reads: Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, as it is commanded to be under obedience as also sayeth the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is shameful for women to speak in the church. After reading the verses, Anderson flew into a sexist rant that included pounding his fist on the pulpit while forcefully ordering women to keep their mouths shut during learning time.
Now obviously, before the service begins, theres chatting and talking going on, thats perfectly legitimate. When we all sing praises to God, of course the ladies should also lift up their voices. But when its learning time, its silence time. So what its saying is that they are to learn in silence
When the learning is going on, they are not permitted to speak. When the preaching of Gods word is taking place and first of all, its not for a woman to be doing the preaching, and second of all, its not for women to be speaking.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/24/anti-gay-pastor-who-prayed-for-obamas-death-demands-silence-from-women-in-church/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/24/anti-gay-pastor-who-prayed-for-obamas-death-demands-silence-from-women-in-church/
In other words, Anderson is saying that women arent allowed to speak up as long as the men are talking and trying to make them learn. Women apparently cant even ask questions until they get home. Anderson even cant handle women saying amen during worship service and doesnt want any woman to tell him her opinion. Why? Because hes allegedly a man. And Anderson is the kind of man who believes women should be seen and not heard.
This is why I dont believe women should say amen during the preaching either, Anderson told his congregation. Because amen means truly or verily
it basically means thats true. So when Im preaching and I say something that you agree with and that you believe in, and you say amen, youre saying thats true. So heres the thing, when Im preaching, women should not express their opinion, even if its a positive opinion, even if she agrees with me.
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/03/24/pastor-demands-women-shut-mouths/
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Right-Wing Pastor DEMANDS Women SHUT THEIR MOUTHS While Men Teach Them In Church [View all]
Segami
Mar 2014
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The Bible also says some things about men's facial hair. Is he conforming to those Biblical
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Mar 2014
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