"We are convinced that a denial or neglect of these principles will lead to increasingly destructive consequences in our families, our churches, and the culture at large."
But really, is that all the church is supposed to be doing? Keeping women in their proper place?
Here's the real question: why do men feel they need to keep women in their proper place? For really, if you think about it, sin usually wins, and if CBMW is right, feminism appeared in 1970 and women have never been found in ecclesiastical offices before this time. So, forty years ago, something that has never happened before, happened. Doesn't that sound kind of odd to you? Since sin usually wins, shouldn't this have been a common battle throughout the centuries?
Everyone agrees that men have controlled women from the dawn of time in every era and every country. Because of their greater physical strength, men have been able to subject women through the threat of violence. For really, what could women have used to subject men? Nagging?
So, what happened before 1970 that caused women to seek equality in unprecedented ways? The vote. It took women a few decades, but when they finally realized what having the vote meant, they began to use it, and as a result they were able to outlaw male violence against them. Without the fist, what could men use to subject women? Not much - other than the Bible.
Hence, since 1987 CBMW has done its utmost to convince us that it is God's desire that men should control women, since they can no longer do it on their own.
It must be really irritating.
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