But a man wrote that chunk of the book, which means that not obeying it is usurping the authority of that man to say that you can't usurp the authority of a man.
ObVious: There are lots of men in advertising. A woman who set up that billboard would be usurping the authority of at least one man, and thus wouldn't have done it. QED.
Well if it wasn't a photoshop job it'd most likely be a billboard put up by atheists and rationalists to claim that all religion is evil, sexist, corrupt, etc., etc.
This verse tends not to end up in modern cathecisms, although it was used quite frequently in the middle ages, particularly the 12th century when the church was trying to curb the power that many abbesses were using in their political spheres (Eleanor of Aquitane is a hero of many medievalist feminists, mostly because her husband would have kept having to throw her in jail regardless of her gender)
Yeah. To be expected of a bunch trying to force a change from a matriarchal tribal society into a patriarchal one. Whittle the numerous gods and spirits down to one almighty boss, backed up by a passle of gender-maybed angels.
Matriarchal tribal societies died out at least 1000 years before Paul wrote that letter to Timothy. This also came from the height of the Roman Empire which was an extremely patriarchal (pagan) society that influenced every culture that it conquered. It also had the aquaducts.
I'm wondering if some non-believer put that up as an answer to all the other billboards God advertises his will on. God's big on sending his will down to us. Moses got a burning bush, we get Clear Channel.
...he's lost his theatricality over the years, hasn't he?
Shows you how much attention I pay to the Bible. (I was thinking more of the other "billboards" on the site, though. With the rocks and slaves and selling of daughters and all.)
Oh, no, Jesus had instructions about those, too. But most of the money shots on that site are old-testament, despite new-testament-Jehovah not being materially different.
So you should probably read She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror (http://www.amazon.com/She-Nailed-Stake-Through-Head/dp/0976654679/) with 9 stories based on the Bible and only one based on NT.
Of course, Nietzsche called the hamfisted act of placing the Old and New Testament in one book is the greatest literary crime of humanity.
Technically, not God, but Paul, who we know to have been a misogynistic dorkball. Of course, Paul claims to know what God thinks, but that's beside the point: the billboard is lying.
Quite. But the billboardist is putting Paul's words (as received, in the bible) in God's mouth. Paul might not have minded that, but it irks me when bible thumpers can't get their attributions straight. Paul might be speaking for God, but that's an additional piece of information we don't have with the bare quotation. Quotations aren't commutative like that. I suppose if one takes it as axiomatic that absolutely everything in the bible is the word of god and true, well then, logically, okay, but we're all going to hell for our mixed fibres and the defects in our eyes and feet.
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Date: 2011-02-03 12:42 am (UTC)SO THAR.
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Date: 2011-02-03 03:08 am (UTC)This verse tends not to end up in modern cathecisms, although it was used quite frequently in the middle ages, particularly the 12th century when the church was trying to curb the power that many abbesses were using in their political spheres (Eleanor of Aquitane is a hero of many medievalist feminists, mostly because her husband would have kept having to throw her in jail regardless of her gender)
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Date: 2011-02-03 01:43 am (UTC)...he's lost his theatricality over the years, hasn't he?
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Date: 2011-02-03 03:04 am (UTC)Of course, Nietzsche called the hamfisted act of placing the Old and New Testament in one book is the greatest literary crime of humanity.
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Date: 2011-02-04 02:57 am (UTC)I have a sinus infection now, so I'm feeling less charitable.