Silent Women

"But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness."
Author: 1 Timothy 2 Verses #: 12

It took 2,000 years before women were allowed to go to college.  I am sure that this verse is responsible for the fact that it took christian society 2,000 years to advance the cause of equality for women and move on past this verse.  Eventually even a judeo/christian society came to see the value of educated women.  Because america wanted/ needed children who could read the bible and america had to allow women access to the teaching profession out of convenience.  Because americans wanted their children to be able to read the bible  we allowed women who were not married and did not have children to become school teachers.  Each generation made some progress toward liberation  In 1920 women were given the freedom to vote.  That struggle lasted through 70 years of protests on the part of women.  Most professions other than teaching and nursing are still dominated by men.  It has only been in the last two decades that a few women have broken the glass ceiling and become doctors, professors, and lawyers and politicians and CEO's, but women and minorities are still a minority in almost all professions.

Christian sects that adhere to "literalism" still keep women strictly in the home and cleaning the church.  The men are the prophets and preachers and priests.  Out of convenience, the women run the day care programs and the bible schools, but are not the elders, deacons and ministers. 

The apostle Paul, who is attributed to be the author of this bible verse never met Jesus and wrote in a time up to 30 years after the death of Jesus.  The validity of Paul's teaching is a debate I will not even enter into, but many of his teachings are clearly designed to keep "women in their place" and in total submission to men and the church. Timothy, the young wanna be minister is living with his mother and grandmother who shared their faith with him. Timothy at the time of this writing was a very young man.  Paul is instucting him on how to start a church.  A desire to return to "literalism" is a desire to roll the clock back on equality to the last century and the century before that, and none of us would want that for ourselves, our "sisters" or our daughters.  The catholic church and many protestant churches is still a place of silence for women.  Women are discriminated against for being women  and are made to feel like it is their purpose to be submissive and have babies for Jesus.  Michelle Duggar truly believes her eggs and her husband's sperm are sacred and must be allowed to procreate no matter what the cost to her, her family and her babies.  Biblical "literalism" is exposed for the lack of logic and insanity that it is.