DLL, do you have some actual statistics on how many Promise Keepers' wives are happy, compared to the entire number of women who belong to NOW? Or are you just generalizing? Incidentally, even if there were technically more, most feminist women do not actually belong to any feminist organizations.
The agenda of the Promise Keepers is political, and it is to keep women in subservient positions in America. It is a group of the fanatic far right, the same group who wants to take women's reproductive rights from them (and maim and murder women at abortion clinics). So much for sanctity of life!!! A group of men who really was most interested in loving the women in their lives would not really have much interest in dominating them.
The theologians who appeared on the Frontline program on Jesus are affiliated with divinity schools at major universities such as Harvard and Yale. They have post-doctoral degrees in religious studies. They write many books on the subject of Jesus, and religion in general, and are some of our foremost authorities on sorting out what is real about what was going on in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, and what was not. There is all sorts of stuff in the archaeological record which has been excavated recently, and also ancient writings found in the last century or so, which help them decipher who Jesus really was, and what he really said.
Obviously, there is a real dichotomy between those who believe literally in what the Bible says, and people who are more open to knowledge and history seeping in. Of course, the "true believers" are motivated to some degree by keeping things secret, like the way the positive role of women was altered so that men could dominate. I guess they were early Promise Keepers!!
Did you read the PBS excerpt about early Christian women? What is your objection to it? |
