Posted on 01/05/2014 10:33:55 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
A self-help book based on Old Testament principles of the Bible written by a 43-year-old married Italian journalist and mother of four advising women to be submissive to their husbands in marriage is now causing an international uproar from feminists around the world.
The book, Cásate y sé sumisa, translated Get Married and Be Submissive, has even drawn the ire of a high ranking political figure in Spain in the form of that country's health minister Ana Mato, who according to The Telegraph, said: "I think it is inappropriate and disrespectful to women."
According to the report, from the very first pages, author Costanza Miriano declares to women: "we are not equal to men and to not recognize this is a guaranteed source of suffering."
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And if a husband complains about his wife in front of the kids it is not good for the kids, especially since in a more traditional marriage the wife spends a lot more time having to guide and discipline them. If they disrespect her because of a husband’s disrespect also probably spoiled brats. Marriage should be a partnership with mutual respect.
Being submissive to your God is not the same as being submissive to your husband which the author proposes. If that is your belief system, then the husband should also be submissive to his God.
In my current relationship, my guy is the fixer, but I am the finder. Roughly equal time spent using each skill.
At one time long ago Jews were a matriarchal people. When did the prayer come into use where men thank God for not having made them a woman?
Ten-four. That should go without saying; a la, “How can two walk together except they be agreed....”
What I was getting at was simply that if those 3 women in that photo knew the Lord and were sold out to Him, how much happier and fulfilled they would be, and LOOK. And I’m confident that unless they’d married out of the Lord’s will, to some unbelieving heathen who treated them like a squaw instead of as Ephesians 5:25 says he should, they’d have a good relationship with their husbands, too.
Thanks for the reply.
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