09-30-2015, 04:55 PM
(09-30-2015, 03:45 PM)Benton Wrote: Many Christian denominations — including Baptists — won't accept female leadership, and some practitioners extend that outside the congregation. There's something in first Corinthians about keeping women silent that's usually the basis.And there's another one where their bodies aren't their own.
But, if I remember right, it's all OT stuff. Which has a lot more in common with Islam than some people think, including homosexuals, women, and odd food requirements.
Well Corinthians is obviously NT. But yeah. I was raised Baptist. Those folks love the parts of the OT that teach good old fashioned American values like the inferiority/stupidity/ickiness of women, God's hatred for gays and the creation myth, but have about 1,000 excuses per verse for the parts they don't like--mostly the diet restrictions and polygamy. Funny how that works.
