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<blockquote data-quote="Harry Haller" data-source="post: 152098" data-attributes="member: 14641"><p><strong>Re: "Submissive" Does not Mean Subservient.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Calkaurji</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Some things go in cycles, I think it is a mistake to think that we are on a path to nakedness, orgies were around in the roman times, the kama sutra was around many many years ago, how does that explain victorian Britain, many factors change the way we dress and live. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Womens rights and liberation though has been getting more equal as time has gone by, and we are only just getting to the point where women are treated as equals in society and by men. Roles are not clearly defined anymore, it is not always the man that does all the manly work, and the woman that does all the cooking and cleaning, one day there will be no clear roles for the sexes. Does that mean women will lose all femininity? no of course not, my wife works very very long hours, and does lots of things she really does not need to, like shopping for patients, or like this morning, seeing 6 patients on a day off, this is not femininity, this is compassion, and women do not have a monopoly on it. My wife works harder than me, so on the whole, it is me that does the cooking, has dinner on the table, rubs her back, massages her feet, almost the role a woman had for a husband 30 years ago, does this make me feel any less masculine? no, not at all, if anything, it makes me feel more masculine, as in my mind, I am taking care of the person dearest to me, I am not Jesus, and my wife is not the congregation, in her eyes, I see god, and in my love for her, and god, I serve them both. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: Magenta">If a man truly loves his wife, would it be so hard for her to obey him on what he believes to be in the best interest of his family? If a man truly loves God, then he will love his wife as God commands, and he would never ask of her to obey him in something that is contrary to God's will. We are all called to be holy, and the husband and wife help each other and sanctify each other on their path to heaven.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Calkaurji, you put too much on me!! Why do I have to know what is best for my family?? Does my wife trust me to know what is best? the answer for me is no, and no. Some days, I am too waylaid by aloo prontha to know whats best for anyone, on those days, my wife knows I am away with the fairies, and without fuss, kicks in, the dogs get fed and walked, decisions get made, things get done, and my wife takes over, normally when she has a day off, and I am busy at work, then the roles get reversed, I get a meal on the table, and a back rub, if at that moment my wife trusted in me to be acting in everyones best interests, she would be solely mistaken!As for asking her to obey me in something that is contrary to gods will, I ask that of myself all the time, so how can I stop asking that to my wife?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">i<span style="color: Magenta">t is wonderful that you consider your wife your equal, because she is equal to you in human dignity. How many husbands do I know that treat their wives with humiliation? Many. And worse, these men use the Bible in a perverted and hypocrital way to justify their actions. Christianity does not teach that women are to be submissive and men are dominant; it teaches that men and women have different and complimentary roles to play. Moral teaching places obligations on both men and women to treat each other in an ethical and respectful manner. To say that men and women are different and have different roles does not contradict this. In Christianity men and women are both seen as equally important.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In my view we all have the same roles to play, we both work, we both do housework, we both shop for soft furnishings, in fact last sunday, I bought a new wok, and my wife bought something for her car, and we came back and played with our respective purchases.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">My wife is my best friend, I am not master in my own house, god is, and we both answer to god, it is this very inference that a wife sees the master in her husband and has to obey that master, that causes so many of the bullying and pain that exists in some marriages, christian or not</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harry Haller, post: 152098, member: 14641"] [b]Re: "Submissive" Does not Mean Subservient.[/b] [FONT=Arial] Calkaurji Some things go in cycles, I think it is a mistake to think that we are on a path to nakedness, orgies were around in the roman times, the kama sutra was around many many years ago, how does that explain victorian Britain, many factors change the way we dress and live. Womens rights and liberation though has been getting more equal as time has gone by, and we are only just getting to the point where women are treated as equals in society and by men. Roles are not clearly defined anymore, it is not always the man that does all the manly work, and the woman that does all the cooking and cleaning, one day there will be no clear roles for the sexes. Does that mean women will lose all femininity? no of course not, my wife works very very long hours, and does lots of things she really does not need to, like shopping for patients, or like this morning, seeing 6 patients on a day off, this is not femininity, this is compassion, and women do not have a monopoly on it. My wife works harder than me, so on the whole, it is me that does the cooking, has dinner on the table, rubs her back, massages her feet, almost the role a woman had for a husband 30 years ago, does this make me feel any less masculine? no, not at all, if anything, it makes me feel more masculine, as in my mind, I am taking care of the person dearest to me, I am not Jesus, and my wife is not the congregation, in her eyes, I see god, and in my love for her, and god, I serve them both. [COLOR="Magenta"]If a man truly loves his wife, would it be so hard for her to obey him on what he believes to be in the best interest of his family? If a man truly loves God, then he will love his wife as God commands, and he would never ask of her to obey him in something that is contrary to God's will. We are all called to be holy, and the husband and wife help each other and sanctify each other on their path to heaven.[/COLOR] Calkaurji, you put too much on me!! Why do I have to know what is best for my family?? Does my wife trust me to know what is best? the answer for me is no, and no. Some days, I am too waylaid by aloo prontha to know whats best for anyone, on those days, my wife knows I am away with the fairies, and without fuss, kicks in, the dogs get fed and walked, decisions get made, things get done, and my wife takes over, normally when she has a day off, and I am busy at work, then the roles get reversed, I get a meal on the table, and a back rub, if at that moment my wife trusted in me to be acting in everyones best interests, she would be solely mistaken!As for asking her to obey me in something that is contrary to gods will, I ask that of myself all the time, so how can I stop asking that to my wife? i[COLOR="Magenta"]t is wonderful that you consider your wife your equal, because she is equal to you in human dignity. How many husbands do I know that treat their wives with humiliation? Many. And worse, these men use the Bible in a perverted and hypocrital way to justify their actions. Christianity does not teach that women are to be submissive and men are dominant; it teaches that men and women have different and complimentary roles to play. Moral teaching places obligations on both men and women to treat each other in an ethical and respectful manner. To say that men and women are different and have different roles does not contradict this. In Christianity men and women are both seen as equally important.[/COLOR] In my view we all have the same roles to play, we both work, we both do housework, we both shop for soft furnishings, in fact last sunday, I bought a new wok, and my wife bought something for her car, and we came back and played with our respective purchases. My wife is my best friend, I am not master in my own house, god is, and we both answer to god, it is this very inference that a wife sees the master in her husband and has to obey that master, that causes so many of the bullying and pain that exists in some marriages, christian or not[/font] [/QUOTE]
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