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The Evil of "Biblical" Patriarchy

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  Skip The following is from the ABC (the Australian ABC, not the American one). Having personally witnessed the effects of teaching and/or believing that wives are meant to be submissive, that the man is the head of the house or is meant to have authority, that only men should hold certain (or all) offices, etc – and having read testimonies like this, I simply don’t have any respect for the belief. Some will respond that complementarianism teaches that the genders are equal and that the ideology doesn’t always lead to abuse and that they’re separate from patriarchy. I’m sorry, but a gender hierarchy is inherently opposite to equality – the two are mutually exclusive. It is inherently patriarchal. The most successful/healthy complementarian marriages are NEVER complementarian – they are ALWAYS egalitarian, despite giving lip service to the “righteousness” of complementarianism and the “evil” of egalitarianism. Complementarianism – the soft form of patriarchy – doesn’t always lead t...
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KJV Only?

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