I listened to very painful testimony on NPR this morning by a young woman who was forced by America’s most prominent polygamist, Warren Jeffs, to marry her nineteen-year-old cousin when she was just fourteen. She remembers pleading with Jeffs not to make her marry him or to have sex with him.
But she was told that a woman’s job is to submit. She was threatened with hell. She was told to yield to authority. God’s authority.
Religious fundamentalism when combined with Taliban-like views of human beings (male and female) is such a frightening thing.
I hope they charge Jeffs with assisting in a rape. A child was forced to have sex because “it was God’s will.” Or so said the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. There’s always some religious authority who has a direct line to God and an infallible interpretation of scripture.
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Kramer has gone from being incredibly funny — a master of physical comedy — to being very unfunny. Likely you’ve seen clips of his outburst at a comedy club either on the news or on youtube.
In his disingenuous apology, he insisted that he isn’t a racist — that the horrible things he was screaming at some African-American hecklers don’t really represent who he is. (Mel Gibson, part two.)
Jesus, the world’s wisest teacher ever, said that it is “out of the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34).
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Have a wonderful, refreshing holiday.
Brett, ( This is from Ray- Nov. 25 ). Sorry to have been so long…Guess I just over looked your comment.
It seems to me that the point Peter was making about braided hair was in the context of speaking to women that had non-believing husbands and that their beauty would be a quiet and gentle spirit. In other words their attitudes would do more to influence their husbands to become Christians. The women at the congregation where I attend can braid their hair or not. It is not my decision to make.
I still do not beleive that the prohibition against being homosexual is cultural because God in His word as He inspired Paul said it was an unnatural relationship- Romans 1 : 24 – 27. Also he wrote about the Christians in Corinth and what they were at one time but were cleansed – I Cor. 6 : 9 -11. ” And that is what some of you were. ” It seems to me he was saying their behavior had changed. Homosexual behavior was included in the “what some of you were . ”
Again I am sorry for the long delay. Let the discussion continue.
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