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Southern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by deacon@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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[–] Lonnie123@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but I’m not entirely buying it as a rational explanation for this.

This literally could go for anything in the Bible. As the person said, the Bible is the word of God, Christians follow the Bible without questioning the word of God. It is, inherently, not based on rational, it is based on Authority.