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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
Sorry but... God says to women "submit and serve" and says to men "love like you love yourself". I would say that the burden falls on the women.
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It says "25 Husbands should love their wives, just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her." That means that a man should serve his wife and give his life up for her, if needed. That's a pretty damned big responsibility.
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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
That's... pretty irrelevent. It says plain as day right there that the man is head of the woman. The rest can be interpreted in a number of different ways, but mostly "awww, isn't that sweet?" kind of way. It is metaphorical. "Man is head of the woman" is not metaphorical. It is straight up.
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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
It also says that man should know that he comes from a woman. Of course I am not condoning the treatment of women by Islam. But how some people can sit here and say "barbaric!" and then go home and choose to read specific chapters in a book that they are supposed to be living by in it's entirety that happens to have the exact same things written in it... makes no sense to me. Yes. Islam is barbaric in the way it treats women and expects women to behave. But the Bible says the same thing. What does that make you?
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Christ doesn't beat up his Church, so men shouldn't beat up their wives. The relationship is the same--a husband should treat his wife, like Christ treated his followers. While a man may be the leader of his family, that doesn't make him the owner of them. He should be giving up his life for their sake.
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— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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