Oh, do I behave badly at church anymore. I am a spiritual person and having suffered loss in my life, understand why humans seek comfort in religion, even if that comfort is cold so much of the time, especially for women. A recent sermon in the denomination of my youth (Presbyterian) had me muttering sotto voce in protest!

The minister of this church is a male with an aptitude for Liberal Dude Nation Sexism—a common trait of many XY Presbyterian ministers. The sermon he delivered was a lecture against intolerance. The minister upheld Paul as a Moralist! The minister spoke of the anti-Semitism of German composer Richard Wagner, who, the minister castigated for the shameful practice of wearing white gloves whenever he conducted scores written by the Jew, Felix Mendelssohn. The minister asserted he did this in an effort to “keep clean” from Jewish contamination.

The minister spoke of those who opposed Civil Rights in the last century as intolerant and ungodly. The minister spoke of Jewish intolerance as ungodly. The minister spoke of the morality of Paul, referring to the apostle Paul, a disciple of Jesus. The minister spoke of his warnings to followers about division in the church and the need that there be “no divisions among you, but you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.” (1 Corinthians )

As listeners and the inculcated sat there nodding, I felt invisible. Oh, the book, Invisible Man and the toils of black men in American. Yet my minister, in my church, was happy to tell me what a “great man” Paul the Apostle was and is. I grabbed my pew pencil –the one I am to use to give donations to the church and to sign the guest/member book as it is passed down the pews. I used this pew pencil to spew, writing to my minister that he ought to condemn Paul for female intolerance, an evil as sure as anti-Semitism or racism. Misogyny, however is to be sanctioned.

For those not acquainted with Paul’s contempt for women here’s a sample:

1 Corinthians 11:2

Now (A)I praise you because you (B)remember me in everything and (C)hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
3But I want you to understand that CHRIST IS THE (D)HEAD OF EVERY MAN, AND (E)THE MAN IS THE HEAD OF A WOMAN, and God is the (F)head of Christ.
4Every man who has something on his head while praying or (G)prophesying disgraces his head.
5But every (H)woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is (I)shaved.
6For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head.
7FOR A MAN OUGHT NOT TO HAVE HIS HEAD COVERED, SINCE HE IS THE (J)IMAGE AND GLORY OF GOD; BUT THE WOMAN IS THE GLORY OF MAN.
8FOR (K)MAN DOES NOT ORIGINATE FROM WOMAN, BUT WOMAN FROM MAN;
9FOR INDEED MAN WAS NOT CREATED FOR THE WOMAN'S SAKE, BUT (L)WOMAN FOR THE MAN'S SAKE.
10Therefore the

woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head,

because of the angels.
11However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and (M)all things originate (N)from God.
13(O)Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
15but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

Liberal Dude Religion:

woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head!

A very powerful statement handed down by the a man (Paul) who thought one group of humans far lesser than another group!

Olbermann, The Times, The entire punditry of MSM feel women ought to have a symbol of authority on their heads, whereas men...such magnifical God-like peacocks are the IMAGE of God and can pray as they wish!

The quiddity of anti-Semitism or racism is a belief that one group of humans is lesser than another group. Why IN GOD’S NAME, does this Presbyterian minister think it is soooooo OK to ignore the misogyny of Paul? Because, this acceptance of misogyny is taught to women and men in the form of ALL religion from the day men wrote the rules. Judaism is choke full of misogyny, Islam, Catholicism, you name the religion and misogyny is dolled out in generous helpings!

Wager is to be denied his white gloves as a means to separate from another group of lesser humans, but men are to embraced the teachings of a raving misogynist as he rails that women lesser than, and put forth to serve their superiors –males—and to keep themselves covered in white gloves, as it were, so not to infect the purity that is male.

I got up and noisily walked out, saying louder than sotto voce that “Paul is the apogee of intolerance!” But for women to protest…this is frowned upon. Just try to beach the all male barrier of the Male-Only Western Wall, or apply to the priesthood.

NO high horses here, for anyone's religion! All religion is ecumenical in its disdain and intolerance for women as equal human beings.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+11%3A2-16&vers...