http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/09/1328354/-Pastor-Mark-Driscoll-Calls-Women-Penis-Homes-His-Megachurch-Begins-Closing-Branches?detail=email
I know there is some weird theology out there these days, but this really takes the cake (so to speak). Pastor Mark Driscoll, author and preaching pastor of Mars Hill Church, says that G-d created man's penis and created women to house it. I'm not sure what Bible passage he is getting those words of wisdom from, or whether it's in the NT or the OT.
Rev. Driscoll has been under fire for a number of issues lately. His comments are often viewed as misogynistic and/or homophobic and he has been harshly criticized for plagiarism. And, over the weekend, church officials announced that Mars Hill will be closing several of its fifteen Pacific Northwest branches.
The Washington-based evangelical megachurch Mars Hill is shutting (some of) its doors. Following controversy over founder Mark Driscoll’s well-documented homophobic and sexist remarks, church officials announced over the weekend that they would be closing several of Mars Hills 15 Pacific Northwest branches, citing financial difficulties caused by “negative media attention.”
According to Pastor Mark Dunford, who was recently laid off from Mars Hill’s Portland branch, his dismissal comes in the wake of calls for Driscoll’s resignation, as well as Dunford’s denouncement of the founder for instilling a “lack of transparency” and “culture of fear” within the church ranks. A recent New York Times profile of Driscoll also reports accusations of “plagiarizing, of inappropriately using church funds and of consolidating power to such a degree that it has become difficult for anyone to challenge or even question him.”
For some time the tide has been turning against Driscoll, who has made a spectacle of himself over the years with his anti-LGBT, anti-woman remarks, many of which he has espoused as key elements of his theology. Preaching theological “complementarianism,” in which women are considered men’s followers and subordinates, Driscoll has expressed a belief that women should always be submissive. According to one report, the pastor once instructed a female congregant to get on her knees and apologize to her husband for failing to bend to his will, then give him a blow job.
the sickness is spreading the churches are no longer if ever the house of God, why did women sit through this guy's chauvinist rants, didn't they pick up a Bible and notice a difference in teaching and degradation? the church leaders the right wing the republican party all are misogynist and the women act as though they are looking forward to the disrespect. do they get their theology papers on the internet or a cracker jack box, or some place in the Galapagos Islands?
I keep thinking of Joan Walsh's book "WHAT'S WRONG WITH WHITE PEOPLE"
if it fits you can't acquit.
Misogyny Definition
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n. noun
- Hatred or mistrust of women.
