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Reading this argument is liking watching Republicans and Democrats argue if government should be all powerful or just very powerful. As an aspiring patriarch I can assure you that none of us support our positions on the idea that the Garden of Eden was a “normative” experience that should inform the roles of husbands and wives. This whole “covering” debate is equally silly. It is not in the Bible. What is in the Bible is far more powerful and scary than men being an umbrella.

So stop debating nothings. If you want to have this debate start in Numbers chapter 30. You are probably both familiar with it and ignoring it because it is so crystal clear and its implications are seismic for both sexes.

Scott, you sir are neither well informed on your topic nor qualified to debate it. You should study to show yourself approved. You have done a disservice to the Gospel with your weak words.

Cheryl, you know what you are and what you’re doing. You are the woman with the haughty eyes and you are tearing your house down around you simply out of spite.

The rest of you women out there who have piped in on this absurd thread, the Bible is clear. If you don’t want to be subject to a husband, then don’t get married. You have that right. If you want to be focused on spiritual things then you are to remain a virgin and devote yourself to God. If you choose to marry then God has ceded a portion of His authority to your husband. Deal with it. Remember that if God is not capable of writing and editing a book clearly and accurately then He is definitely not capable of saving your soul or creating the universe with the brush of His mind.

If you do want to throw out vast sections of scripture to craft a world of your own to live in, please remember that the men in your lives may feel free to do the same and by losing the responsibilities of submission you may also the lose the protections of the prohibitions against adultery, anger and violence and even marriage itself. Because why would any man submit himself to rules you have edited yourselves when with a little more editing he could completely free himself of any obligation to you? Do you honestly think that if men had written those rules with the intention of being self serving that they would have included restrictions on our own sexual freedoms? You should count yourselves blessed that you don’t believe in a faith written by men, those are very ugly, dangerous places to be women.

I now proudly go to join Tom in perpetual moderation.