Feminism and sexism in the church.

I'm going to use the comment section to expand my thoughts. Such an important topic deserves complete thoughts.

So on the spiritual danger of being pandered to and the issue of the bishop not feeling able to do something.

So the issue is telling women than they have no capacity for unrighteous dominion.

This reminds me of a situation I had with a girl friend in high school. We had been dating pretty much my entire senior year and it was close to the end of the year and we were about ready to be having the big talk. There was concern about the fact that I was LDS and that she was a Baptist. I just want to say before I say anything else that this girl was amazing. I was never happier to be around someone my whole life. She was concerned about the differences in beliefs we had and what she was told about LDS not really being Christian and that damnation was on my path, among other things. She tried with peculiar motivation to convince me that commandments weren't really relevent and they existed only to illustrate our need for Christ. They were never really meant to be followed. Then she said something else to me. See said that once you feel the spirit once you are saved and never have to worry about anything again.

Real quick let's clairify with some paraphrased Paul. Paul reemphisizes that you cannot have two masters. If you are converted and then choose to serve the devil you cannot have Christ as your master. It is possible to fall away from grace after feeling the spirit and this is entirely biblical.

But how dangerous is that? A belief that you cannot be in danger of something and are invincible. This is not to the benefit of women to give them inaccuracies like this in an effort to gain a sense of cheap acceptance. In fact this is to objectify women. To view them as dispensors of social confedence that will vend the sought after product if you press the right buttons. People like this have no concern for women. They jepordize other's spiritual wellbeing in exchange for cheap temporary emotional reaffermation.

If you respect women then you trust them to support the gospel as it stands and respect their capacity to regect the gospel as an individual if the choose to.

So on evidence that women do at times have an issue with unrighteous dominion which applies equally well with men but does sound like it might apply especially with women, but it doesn't, it applies equally well with men. Any time you emotionalize a leadership possition you are commiting unrighteous dominion. Men emotionalize leadership. Women emotionalize leadership. Man's love of that is one reason why we are never going to have full peace on this planet until after Christ comes.

Feminism does have a particular issue with this, though I don't blame them because its pretty common in all worldly philosphies. Capitalism has it, communism has it, feminism has it, professionalism has it.

That is that it encouraged as possitive to seek out leadership positions for your own emotional benefit. Again, feminism isn't uniquely wrong here. The church is pretty much the only place with a correct teaching on this. That and the issue of being mift over other people having leadership. That's also unrighteous dominion.

We are all majorally in the same boat. The majority of us are not in leadership positions whether we are men or women.

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