What a wonderfully rich rebuttal by Miguel De La Torre to the Christian yahoos in those Texas mega-churches who are making darn sure the “little lady” stays in her place …. Love it! Here’s an excerpt:
Don’t you just miss those good-old days? As good as they were, women 50 or 60 years ago still had too much freedom. The liberated women of the 1950s had many privileges. They simply weren’t submissive enough. I suggest that we as Christians must return to a truly biblical understanding of how men should treat women.
Women must go back to being the property of men. Her body belongs to the man who happens to own her–first her father, then her husband (Ex 20:17).
As soon as she reaches puberty (around the ages of 11 to 13) her virginity should be sold to the highest bidder.
And frankly, why should we men settle for just one woman, when the Bible gives us so many more options? Why not revive the biblical practice of having concubines (1 Ki 11:3), sex slaves (Dt 21:10-14) and enjoy the occasional pleasures of a prostitute (Gen 38:15)?
It just gets better from there! Love the psycho-analysis of the sexist and racist white male:
When white men like Tom Nelson and Bruce Ware look into a mirror, they recognize themselves through the distancing process of negative self-definition: “I am what I am not.” I am not an emotional woman, therefore I am a rational man. I am not a lazy black person, therefore I am industrious. I am not an uncivilized Latino, therefore I am civilized.
The formation of the white man’s ego constructs an illusory self-representation by ascribing femininity to their “Others.”
Show me a sexist and I’ll show you a racist. Seeing Others as feminine (whether they be female or male) justifies their subjugation, helping us better understand the underpinnings of both colonialism and imperialism.
OOOOO it’s rich… rich I tell you!
