Light

“So if WOMAN can be strong, then that automatically weakens MAN, in that world view.”

Something just clicked with me when I read what Psalmist wrote there. It’s as if the patriarchalists see things as a zero sum game. If women have any amount of authority or power, that means less for them. It is as if they cannot see, for instance, that more women preachers means more gospel preached which means more people saved which means more glory to God. Instead, it means less notches on their belt, less credit that they get, less glory to them, fewer crowns they get. A woman’s vote means theirs carries less weight (vs. a genuine reflection of the opinion of all adults in the community); a woman who shares the decision making means they have less of a voice (vs a more balanced decision). And on and on it goes.

Zero sum game. Big lightning bolt for me on this one.