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Originally Posted by Spear Dane  Quote:
Originally Posted by Davidius I know that it is a joke making fun of condescending attitudes toward intellectual women, but I do want to say that it's a shame that the idea that "men are intellectual and women are emotional" has gained a lot of footing even in the Church. | That idea found tremendous impetus in the secular Enlightenment (I often point out to feminists that they can't use Enlightenment standards of reason for that point). | And it goes back at least as far as Aristotle. I have no doubt that it also entered the Church through the Roman Catholic scholars of the Middle Ages who considered "the Philosopher" to be as much an authority as the scriptures.
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DAVIDIVS DOCTVS VTRIVSQVE LINGVAE
Husband of Emilia
Member: First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Durham (RPCNA) - Durham, NC
Currently in the process of transferring membership to an as-yet-undecided church in Chapel Hill
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German Literature and Classics
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