Christian Cognitive Dissonance
I purposefully don’t write about matters of religion on this blog because I want it to be fun and light-hearted, but this particular thing has been on my mind and I wanted to put it out there.
A female christian friend of mine posted this link on her Facebook page earlier today. For the tl;dr crew, it’s an article about how christian women should be “respectful of” their husbands, but with a pretty flat out insinuation (in my opinion) that “respectful of” means “inferior to.”
I don’t want to seem inflammatory here, but I truly can’t fathom why a woman (christian or otherwise) would read something like that, presumably understand it, and then come to the conclusion that according to her church, god somehow made her inferior to men. To further drive home the point, it should be noted she is the primary bread-winner for her family because her husband is a full time artist and only gets paid occasionally when he secures a commission.
Not to play armchair psychologist, but I just can’t understand the cognitive dissonance that’s going on here. How can she live her everyday life and see she’s a capable woman who has a good job, pays the bills, raises her kids well, and by all accounts is a model citizen and yet still presumably believes she is somehow “less than”?
I know this is probably part of a larger discussion about religion and equality and religion and female rights, but this particular example seemed particularly striking to me today.
Thoughts?
