“The fight for women’s equality in the churches is a formidable fight because it can never be won on the turf of the traditional churches, which continue their program of discrimination each time they recycle and reframe the ancient traditions that dehumanize the female body. As long as the Bible’s devaluation of the female body as part of the natural order of creation is viewed as sacred, as holy misogyny, no reasonable argument can dislodge it. As long as the Bible’s story of the subjugation of woman is viewed as God’s deserved decree laid upon all women for all time, there can be no liberation. How much longer must women suffer the dreadful and damning consequences of the ancient male imagination, which valorized the male body while vulgarized the female, because the Bible tells us so?” (2013:153–154).
Waarom skryf ek nou vanaand hierdie stuk? Want professor Christi van der Westhuizen het pas 'n skitterende stuk op die webbladsy van Netwerk24 gepubliseer waarin sy die besluit van die sinode van die GKSA as "onverdunde vrouehaat" klassifiseer. Sy is volkome reg.
https://www.netwerk24.com/.../verset-teen-vrou-in-amp-dui...
Wat 'n mens teen die bors stuit, is dat vroue dwarsdeur die eeue in die Christelike kerke as minderwaardige wesens beskou en behandel is. Manlike besluitnemers was (en is) daarvan oortuig dat God self vroue nie hoog ag nie. Die ganse Bybel is na regte vrou-onvriendelik – vandaar DeConick se titel "Holy Misogyny" = Heilige Vrouehaat. Lees gerus Christi se artikel. En as haar argumente jou nie oortuig nie, koop April deConick se boek.
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