Patriarchy

http://www.alternet.org/story/152393/my_life_as_a_daughter_in_the_christian_patriarchy_movement_--_how_i_was_taught_to_obey_men%2C_birth_8_kids_and_do_battle_against_secular_america/comments/
FROM Alternet
By Libby Anne
My Life as a Daughter in the Christian Patriarchy Movement
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My Take

Why has the topic from patriarchy been hijacked onto vegetarianism.

However, I must join the present argument, defending vegetarianism: It is a healthier diet, it is cheaper if the individual wants to grow his/her own.
Takes seven acres to feed a carnivore person a year, while it takes one acre to feed a vegetarian, so where is the logic?

The problem is that carnivores are gluts under the primitive animal instinct that you have to eat another animal to live. The strongest animals who also live the longest are vegetarians.

All it takes is a bit of learning how to prepare healthy vegetarian food and your health will improve, if you eat a balanced diet. I have been on both sides of the fence. And anyone who wants to research will agree with me.

Now to the topic of Patriarchy.

What Libby Anne wrote appears as if it were fiction. I have visited many churches of various denominations, and all I saw was woman worshiping. Man in those churches were constantly being bashed. Therefore whatever odd church Anne, was raised in seems off the norm.

Nevertheless, anyone who reads the bible will find that patriarchy in the bible is not what is used in Anne’s church. In the bible, Abraham was told by God to listen to his wife, when Sarah was sending away her Egyption slave and her son from Abraham.

Likewise, Isaac did not do what he wanted. Rebecca his wife had a lot of saying. Jacob did not have a choice in his wives; all he wanted was Rachel, and then ended up with four wives by Leah and Rachel and their father’s doing. They even sold him to each other. He conferred with his wives before he returned to his land.
So where is the Patriarchy problem?

While the bible places man as the ad of the family, it also places man as leading by example and even dying for his wife. Such is not required of women. Is it not equality?

Perhaps, what Libby Anne needs is to read the bible and stay way from false churches. They can’t all be the truth. There are many churches that are nothing more than a business under the name of Christianity.

Ho! By the way, if you read the bible you will find that God intended for people to be eating vegetables as a primary source of food. The same gluts with animal instincts who mock vegetarians are the same that use tyranny in the name of patriarchy and in the name of Christianity. As Jesus stated in the New Testament: Be aware of wolves in sheeps’ clothes.