What the hell?
"There is no higher calling for a woman than [being] a wife."
Excuse me? If that's true, I might as well kill myself right now and be done with it. I don't have that calling. I've never had that calling. I never will. So pretty much, I will never be able to really be a person of spiritual fulfillment because I'm not someone's wife.
That is such bullshit. It's cool if a woman decides that her highest calling is to be a wife. That's her choice. But to actually hold the opinion that this applies to every woman? Bullshit.
I am so sick and tired of American Christian culture trying to shove Proverbs 31 in my face and threaten me with burning in hell if I don't marry some Christian guy and wash his clothes and follow his orders and pop out all his babies and fawn over him with adoring, submissive eyes. I would rather die than live that way. Not kidding in the least.
FRANKLY (that's for you, Alecia), shouldn't a woman's highest calling be to serve God? To live out the Truth in one's life? To spread the News of God's love and Christ's incredible sacrifice? Shouldn't a woman's highest calling be the same as a man's? We are all God's children, and we are all called to serve Him in whatever way we are meant to. If a woman can best serve God by being a wife, then Amen! However, another woman who can serve God and be more Christ-like as a single, unmarried person should not be condemned or looked down upon as a lesser servant because of that! Doesn't anyone listen to the Apostle Paul anymore?
I was trying to go to bed, but I read the above quotation and it made me so angry I suddenly wasn't tired at all. Honestly, if being a wife is the only thing I can do to please God, then maybe this whole Christianity thing isn't for me. I simply can't believe that God only wants women to be in the home. I can't. Why do I exist if that's the case? Because I believe in Jesus and will always believe in Jesus, I have to also believe that, as shocking as this may seem to some people in the church in America, a woman can be single, happy, and a powerful instrument of God. God can use a single woman to his glory. Believe it, because that is the truth.
(I am still so spitting mad, I could just throw up. IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY! I swear, I'm leaving this country in search of a Christian community that isn't tainted by centuries of patriarchy and American-Christian-ism. What, there is no such place? Well, crap. I'm screwed, then. SO ANGRY!!!!!!)
posted by ellen @ 2:21 AM
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Me too, Love. Me. Too.
I'll be posting my own little blog shortly about this.
It's sad and maddening.
I killed myself when I read that. But then I went to Heaven and Jesus told me that Republicans don't know everything and neither does the religious right. Then he told me to kick some ass and sent me back.
Yes, it is maddening when people say thoughtless things like that. But they're more to be pitied for a narrow perspective. Like churches that don't accept women as ordained ministers. Well, that's just a church that is cheating itself out of being blessed by another's gifts just because of that person's gender.
Where'd you see that quote? I'm curious. and although I don't know her, I can't wait to read Alecia's post. If I can.
Anybody can get married.ANYBODY, even stupid Jerry Springer-type people. Something that anybody can do, should NOT be a woman's highest calling.
oh wait, what about lesbianism? Then you could be someone's wife, but they'd be your wife too. So two wives, equals double womens' highest calling?
Oh wait, I guess that depends on your definition of 'marriage'. Oops. Sorry Christian Community.
okay, dude, where'd you read that incendiary statement? 'Cause I want to read it too.
Um, I read it in a friend's blog.
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