In every case, "wives submit to your husbands" appears in the same context as "slaves obey your masters." And yet I'm constantly told we need to consider context & culture with the latter but not the former...— Rachel Held Evans (@rachelheldevans) May 9, 2018
I don't mean to shortchange this blog, but I sometimes find that, instead of making statements here, I'm using Twitter instead to engage in at-the-moment conversations about the kinds of issues that interest us at this site.
A case in point: yesterday, Rachel Held Evans made an excellent point yesterday about the link between a complementarian-subordinationist (for women, to men) reading of the scriptures, and one that used to support slavery. The two go together. They have historically gone together.
The same kind of people turn to the religion to justify both forms of human oppression. The descendants of white biblicist Christians who supported slavery by quoting bible verses, who then spouted bible verses to justify racial segregation when slavery was abolished, against their will: they're the folks thumping their bibles right now to tell women to remain in their places and LGBTQ folks that they're evil and need to repent.
So my response to Rachel's tweet, which seems to have gotten a lot of attention, and for that reason, I thought I'd share this thread with you today:
Yep. Their game is to pretend that they've seen the light about their former defense of slavery and racial segregation — which was based on bible verses. But that their resistance to women's rights and LGBTQ rights is something entirely different, 1)— William D. Lindsey (@wdlindsy) May 9, 2018
that the bible is very CLEAR about those matters and not about slavery.— William D. Lindsey (@wdlindsy) May 9, 2018
Though, in fact, the bible clearly blesses slavery and the biblical literalism they want to apply to these texts about women is the very same biblical literalism they once applied to defend slavery. 2)
Women's & LGBTQ rights are only the latest iteration of their battle to remain on the wrong side of history's moral arc, no matter what movement comes along to extend rights to someone other than straight white men — whom they deify, in whose image they make their god. 3)— William D. Lindsey (@wdlindsy) May 9, 2018
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!— Rachel Held Evans (@rachelheldevans) May 10, 2018
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