Faith and other YEC: why even bother taking part in the discussion?

That's been my experience, too, though I may soon have to rely on the power of hazel eyes alone.Christ, I suppose, must have been black-haired and black-eyed with swarthy skin, but it's hard to find a Christ like that in Western churches or minds.The gender roles in the Bible seem equivalent to the ritual dress, dietary, and purification laws--customs and mores of desert tribes elevated to the status of religious tenets.Of course, most Christians feel those annoying thread counts and baby back rib bans can be ignored, but for some reason the gender oppression (and everything else that cements existing power structures) remains obligatory, every husband a mini-Pope: some Borgias, some John Pauls, some former Young Nazis.Maybe it's a safety measure. If women preachers abused their status and started sleeping their way through the congregation as so many male evangelicals famously have, the competing male congregants might resort to violence, given our greater strength and God-of-War like mastery. Can't have that.

Carpenter's tan.

"Oy vei!"