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Rusty Houser hated women. He learned that at church. [View all]
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Housers violence was not abstract. He set out to kill women in the audience for an Amy Schumer movie. His lethal violence was an expression of his contempt for and distrust of women.
And that misogyny cannot be abstracted or diagnosed away from the anti-woman ideology he learned in his community, his culture, and, yes, in his church.
Im not talking about his Southern Baptist churchs opposition to womens ordination or its blasphemous complementarian theology of male supremacy, although thats also part of it. But its possible to remain a Southern Baptist in mostly good standing while somewhat questioning that official required stance on the role of women in the church or the role of wives in marriage.
Im talking about the more fundamental teaching the paramount religious and ethical teaching of that denomination, which says that women cannot and must not be trusted. Rusty Houser was shaped by a faith tradition that does not abide any question or challenge to its official required stance of legal and political opposition to abortion.
Rusty Houser was shaped by a politicized religious community that routinely compares American women to Nazis and accuses them of killing unborn babies and thus being to blame for 9/11. Women, this central principle insists, cannot be trusted with their own sexuality or their own bodies. This is the fundamental fact it teaches about women: they are untrustworthy and irresponsible and morally inferior.
Houser embraced the premise of that teaching and like Paul Hill and Scott Roeder he took it all to heart. Now, as with Hill and Roeder, his actions are being dismissed as an aberration the consequences of his mental illness rather than the consequences of the ideology instructed and required by his church.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/07/27/rusty-houser-hated-women-he-learned-that-at-church/
Housers violence was not abstract. He set out to kill women in the audience for an Amy Schumer movie. His lethal violence was an expression of his contempt for and distrust of women.
And that misogyny cannot be abstracted or diagnosed away from the anti-woman ideology he learned in his community, his culture, and, yes, in his church.
Im not talking about his Southern Baptist churchs opposition to womens ordination or its blasphemous complementarian theology of male supremacy, although thats also part of it. But its possible to remain a Southern Baptist in mostly good standing while somewhat questioning that official required stance on the role of women in the church or the role of wives in marriage.
Im talking about the more fundamental teaching the paramount religious and ethical teaching of that denomination, which says that women cannot and must not be trusted. Rusty Houser was shaped by a faith tradition that does not abide any question or challenge to its official required stance of legal and political opposition to abortion.
Rusty Houser was shaped by a politicized religious community that routinely compares American women to Nazis and accuses them of killing unborn babies and thus being to blame for 9/11. Women, this central principle insists, cannot be trusted with their own sexuality or their own bodies. This is the fundamental fact it teaches about women: they are untrustworthy and irresponsible and morally inferior.
Houser embraced the premise of that teaching and like Paul Hill and Scott Roeder he took it all to heart. Now, as with Hill and Roeder, his actions are being dismissed as an aberration the consequences of his mental illness rather than the consequences of the ideology instructed and required by his church.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/07/27/rusty-houser-hated-women-he-learned-that-at-church/
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Lafayette shooter had history of right-wing web postings, erratic behavior
struggle4progress
Jul 2015
#3
Perhaps you could benefit from a reading comprehension course: I simply posted
struggle4progress
Jul 2015
#7
I think that when all one has to offer is a continual Google Gish Gallop, dignity is the least
cleanhippie
Jul 2015
#24
You're wasting your time. Leo doesn't respond when busted fabricating reality.
cleanhippie
Aug 2015
#27
"But it’s possible to remain a Southern Baptist in mostly good standing while somewhat questioning"
Lordquinton
Jul 2015
#14
Exhibit A: “The Mansplainingest Mansplainer Who Ever Internetted.”
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2015
#16
Fred posted it as an example of the Southern Baptist attitude to women (nt)
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2015
#21
I don't know what he learned at church but I know what he DIDN'T learn from Jesus
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#26
Some adherents to Abrahamic religions have a warped interpretation of the original sin
Major Nikon
Aug 2015
#29
It's strange, isn't it? Here's a guy who shot a bunch of strangers. And then some people
struggle4progress
Aug 2015
#37