I’ve always found it odd (?? Not sure if that’s the correct word) to see the vast amount of English graffiti in comparison to graffiti written in a country’s primary/native language.
There's an exhibit called "what were you wearing?" which shows what women were wearing when they were sexually assaulted. The clothes are absolutely normal, which should dispel the "she was dressed like she was asking for it" myth once and for all. A rapist will rape regardless of what a woman is wearing.
In the fourth century, Churchian "Doctor" John Chrysostom accused women this way:
You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not, indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment. ... When you have made another sin in his heart, how can you be innocent? Tell me, whom does this world condemn? Whom do judges punish? Those who drink poison or those who prepare it and administer the fatal potion? You have prepared the abominable cup, you have given the death dealing drink, and you are more criminal than are those who poison the body; you murder not the body but the soul. And it is not to enemies you do this, nor are you urged on by any imaginary necessity, nor provoked by injury, but out of foolish vanity and pride.
I don't know the dead man outside of a few quotes and Wikipedia articles. But the rest of his extremism aside, that sort of talk certainly disqualifies him from "good Christian" eldership in my book. A friend knew a "good Christian" man who told his young daughters that they had to dress a certain way so that his daughters would not tempt him. This man and Chrysostom seemingly share the same rapist mindset. A part of me wants to stone them both.
On the other hand, a father wrote to his sons,
I am reminded of a story from the desert fathers. The desert fathers (and mothers) were Christian hermits, monks, and ascetics who lived in the desert, mainly in Egypt, during the third century—when Christianity was still illegal in the Roman Empire. The story goes like this:
One of the fathers followed by his disciples arrives at the gates of Alexandria. He sees a very beautiful woman coming along the road. The disciples cover their heads with their cloaks so as not to fall into temptation of the flesh. From underneath their cloaks, they see their master and are scandalized to find him looking straight at the beautiful woman! After she has entered the gates, they remove their cloaks and ask, "How could you succumb to temptation and look at the woman?" Their master replied sadly, "How impure are your hearts. You saw her only as a temptation. I saw her as one of God’s wonders."
These disciples, living in community with one another and their master, had cut themselves off from the fuller community by reducing women - especially beautiful women - to temptations to be avoided. Their master, on the other hand, had learned to love and embrace the fuller community because he was able to see others as wonders of God. This is the very trap I want us to avoid. I don't want you to be either afraid of women or to reduce them to inhuman objects of lust, desire, or temptation. We can end up doing this by falling into either extreme, by refusing to look at them at all or by willingly looking at them as objects of desire. I want you to be able to love your female neighbor by seeing her as the wonder she is.
Letters to My Sons: A Humane Vision for Human Relationships by M.G. Bianco.
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ICountToPotato on September 8th, 2022 at 10:12 UTC »
I’ve always found it odd (?? Not sure if that’s the correct word) to see the vast amount of English graffiti in comparison to graffiti written in a country’s primary/native language.
NFTA29 on September 8th, 2022 at 11:09 UTC »
There's an exhibit called "what were you wearing?" which shows what women were wearing when they were sexually assaulted. The clothes are absolutely normal, which should dispel the "she was dressed like she was asking for it" myth once and for all. A rapist will rape regardless of what a woman is wearing.
billyblue22 on September 8th, 2022 at 12:34 UTC »
In the fourth century, Churchian "Doctor" John Chrysostom accused women this way:
I don't know the dead man outside of a few quotes and Wikipedia articles. But the rest of his extremism aside, that sort of talk certainly disqualifies him from "good Christian" eldership in my book. A friend knew a "good Christian" man who told his young daughters that they had to dress a certain way so that his daughters would not tempt him. This man and Chrysostom seemingly share the same rapist mindset. A part of me wants to stone them both.
On the other hand, a father wrote to his sons,
Letters to My Sons: A Humane Vision for Human Relationships by M.G. Bianco.