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thucythucy

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4. No. For one thing, it's a non sequitor.

Reply to Voltaire2 (Original post)

Mon Jun 4, 2018, 09:01 PM

Jun 2018

A woman is expected "to submit" to an actual human being--her husband, who can make actual demands and commt physically, sexually, psychologically abusive acts.

"The church" isn't an individual--and isn't even a single organization, and "the headship of Christ" is at best a wooly abstraction, at worst a fantasy. In any case, no actual Jesus is going to come down and demand submission from "the church."

So on top of everything else, this offensive tenet completely fails as analogy.

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Should I respect this sincere religious belief, a tenet of the SBC? [View all] Voltaire2 Jun 2018 OP

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