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We are conditioned both personally in our own lives and through the testimony of cultural history to believe those things. One of the things I point out in my blog entry on equality in the original marriage design is that both the “first” and the “naming” arguments rely solely on the traditions of man, not the teaching of God. Ah but those traditions! Susanna shows in her book how long some of those traditions have held sway over us. We are slowly shedding their influence but old habits (and beliefs) die hard, especially if they have been passed down by those we love and trust (although they themselves are victims of the same conditioning). And so, even though we hear the truth a number of times, it makes us uncomfortable because we find comfort in the familiarity, stability, and apparent trustworthyness of our traditions. Hang in there Lmb – soon the new garments will help you forget the old worn out tatters of patriarchal tradition.