Tag: Patriarchy
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Food for Thought
It troubles me that some people have no interest in reading the Gospels because they can’t take seriously some of the things they read there. An example is the “feeding of the five thousand” from five loaves and two fish. As it happens, this is an instance of occasional patriarchal prejudice. According to Matthew 14:21,…
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“God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth” ..
I’m continuing to ask myself, what is Christianity? A previous post saw it as being like the typical supermarket set of shelves, with many different options on offer. Let’s narrow things down, however, to a traditional, historical, generic outline of what Christianity has said it’s about. Let’s consider the 4th century CE Apostles’ Creed, which…
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Genesis 6 – Disreputable Goings-On!
Whenever we read the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, we should remind ourselves that we’re dealing with ways of thinking very different from our own. The Israelites shared the world view, and the myths, legends and folktales, of their fellow Canaanites (Palestinians), and the wider set of Assyrian (Syrian) and Babylonian (Iraqi) peoples in the ancient near…
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The Ten Commandments
The 5th Commandment “Give honour to your father and mother, so that your days will be long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you.” Although there was no mention of wives or women in the 4th commandment, mothers are included with fathers in this one. Israel was a patriarchal society, and…
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