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Promise keepers are always good for a laugh 😇 #1 on the list -Quiet!!! (Original Post) lunasun May 2020 OP
I wonder how his wife feels about that, if he has one. Arkansas Granny May 2020 #1
From what little I could see of his face, he might be an INCEL and is putting out his mating call alwaysinasnit May 2020 #2
Well if , & I say if he has one, we will never know how she feels -Rule #1 Quiet !! 🤐 lunasun May 2020 #9
Those are the words of Paul. safeinOhio May 2020 #3
Neither 'Timothy' Nor 'Titus' Sir, Was Written By Paul The Magistrate May 2020 #6
I go with Bart Ehrman and Misquoting Jesus. safeinOhio May 2020 #8
I Think The Gentleman Goes A Bit Far, Sir The Magistrate May 2020 #14
The book "Testament" by archeologist John Romer describes the evolution of the Bible Zorro May 2020 #17
It Certainly Can, Sir The Magistrate May 2020 #18
I had a neighbor who was a promise keeper Evergreen Emerald May 2020 #4
Hmm I see so even the rule #5- caretakers of children is restricted to care taking only but lunasun May 2020 #11
Ugh! What a horrible life that woman - and her children - must have had. smirkymonkey May 2020 #21
Three of us women folk were at a local establishment. LakeArenal May 2020 #5
That describes my wife SCantiGOP May 2020 #7
As a mailman, I delivered lots of porn to the local Promise Keepers organizer. Midnight Writer May 2020 #10
From a description in an upthread response I was thinking some S&M ,master and servant stuff lunasun May 2020 #12
Whatever You Do, Ma'am, DO NOT Look Up 'Christian Domestic Discipline'.... The Magistrate May 2020 #13
then they wonder why they are "incel" Skittles May 2020 #15
This is the real belief system of the Church of Christ. MicaelS May 2020 #16
This wouldn't fly even with the Stepfords. kairos12 May 2020 #19
Well now, I simply don't agree with this individual whatsoever jmowreader May 2020 #20
Must like tiny mushroom dicks. smirkymonkey May 2020 #22

alwaysinasnit

(5,057 posts)
2. From what little I could see of his face, he might be an INCEL and is putting out his mating call
Thu May 28, 2020, 03:26 PM
May 2020

for a fundamentalist-type wife (like the Quiverfull Movement).

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/quiverfull-movement-facts_n_7444604

safeinOhio

(32,623 posts)
3. Those are the words of Paul.
Thu May 28, 2020, 03:39 PM
May 2020

The words of Jesus. "Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven".

Read your Red Letter Bible, asshats.

The Magistrate

(95,241 posts)
6. Neither 'Timothy' Nor 'Titus' Sir, Was Written By Paul
Thu May 28, 2020, 04:03 PM
May 2020

The epistle of Peter does not even pretend to have been written by him, and certainly was not written by Peter.

There is very little reason to take any attribution of a statement to Jesus seriously, for that matter. Certainly no contemporaneous record was made, and whatever was ascribed to Jesus by the evangelists was at best sifted out of oral tradition a generation or more afterwards. After Paul had written his epistles. The half dozen or so of these which seem reliably attributed to the man are the actual foundational documents of Christianity. It is a pleasant exercise to beileve there was some better, even perhaps more progressive original form of Christianity, which Paul mangled, but there is no particular reason to think so. The man may well have been a bad apple, even a thoroughgoing rotter, but he gets a bad rap....

safeinOhio

(32,623 posts)
8. I go with Bart Ehrman and Misquoting Jesus.
Thu May 28, 2020, 04:52 PM
May 2020

I don't think there is any historical proof that Jesus ever walked the Earth or wrote or spoke anything. However, saying that, I find those that profess to be Christian, never quote those words in red. I find they have a very hard time defending that argument and it is fun to challenge them on that Christian title when they have a hard time with the Beatitudes. They seem very familiar with Jewish Law of the Ten Commandments yet fail when it comes to "Biblical" Jesus.
Totally agree with your post and as I said, I'm not religious at all, just enjoy the studies of it. If I were to say I follow any religion, it would be the Tao Te Ching as a philosophy only.

According to Dr. Ehrman, there are more mistakes in the Bible than there are words. Until the printing press in the 1500s, all copies were transcribed and changed, from small to large part, by every transcription.

The Magistrate

(95,241 posts)
14. I Think The Gentleman Goes A Bit Far, Sir
Thu May 28, 2020, 05:42 PM
May 2020

Not recorded recognizably in secular documents is a bit short of no one existed at the root of the movement.

But there are certainly no 'original' sources: all the documents available are shot through with apologetics and theological postures. They are not in any sense historical records of fact.

Zorro

(15,716 posts)
17. The book "Testament" by archeologist John Romer describes the evolution of the Bible
Sat May 30, 2020, 10:39 AM
May 2020

It's a witty yet detailed chronicle of how and why both testaments were written and consolidated. Lots of contradictory material can be found between the books of the Bible.

Evergreen Emerald

(13,069 posts)
4. I had a neighbor who was a promise keeper
Thu May 28, 2020, 03:58 PM
May 2020

His wife home schooled the three children on top of everything else a stay-at-home mom does. One day I was out running early and she was sanding the front porch, preparing to paint it before the kids woke up. I suggested that she reevaluate the work load distribution.

One day my daughter and I were going bike riding with their family. We walked our bikes to the start of the trail and my daughter asked me if she could get on her bike. I said yes.

Her daughter asked her mom if she could get on her bike. Instead of answering, the mom turned to her husband and asked if her daughter could get on the bike. She apparently did not have the authority to make that decision.

Promise Keepers are restrictive.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
11. Hmm I see so even the rule #5- caretakers of children is restricted to care taking only but
Thu May 28, 2020, 05:22 PM
May 2020

not any decisions about the children including if they can get on their bike
probably didn’t pick out the paint color for the porch she was going to paint before making breakfast either

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
21. Ugh! What a horrible life that woman - and her children - must have had.
Sun May 31, 2020, 03:41 AM
May 2020

Men like that tend to be authoritarian and abusive. I am sure their home life was no picnic. I can't understand why any woman would agree to an arrangement like that and bring children into such an abusive household. It's just sick.

LakeArenal

(28,785 posts)
5. Three of us women folk were at a local establishment.
Thu May 28, 2020, 03:58 PM
May 2020

We were talking and laughing load. Lots of giggles and hoot hoot.

Two guys that you know what they looked like care up and admonished for being loud and not lady like. To which we responded:
BWAHAHAHAHAHA. One “lady” said here’s my husband’s phone number. Maybe he can help you.

A guy said, I feel sorry for husband.

We said pretty much in unison: We feel sorry for your wife.

SCantiGOP

(13,862 posts)
7. That describes my wife
Thu May 28, 2020, 04:05 PM
May 2020

Well, #6 does somewhat since she turned 50.
I keep telling her to wear her "high-heeled shoes and her low-necked sweater."

Midnight Writer

(21,674 posts)
10. As a mailman, I delivered lots of porn to the local Promise Keepers organizer.
Thu May 28, 2020, 05:16 PM
May 2020

I'm not talking a Playboy magazine.

I'm talking box loads of videos, tons of magazines in black plastic wrappers.
.

Daily.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
12. From a description in an upthread response I was thinking some S&M ,master and servant stuff
Thu May 28, 2020, 05:29 PM
May 2020

Women with gag balls because Quiet submissive !
What ever the fetish you know it’s gotta be twisted
Boxloads
Daily

They gotta do something at those men meetings after the prayer opening

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
16. This is the real belief system of the Church of Christ.
Sat May 30, 2020, 08:09 AM
May 2020

Had a COC coworker in my last job who told me all about. Was serious, too.

jmowreader

(50,520 posts)
20. Well now, I simply don't agree with this individual whatsoever
Sat May 30, 2020, 07:06 PM
May 2020

I prefer women to be...

1. As loud as they want to be
2/5. Sharing in the duties and joys of the home, including the raising of any children found therein
3. Not "submissive" to ANYONE!
4. Atheist

and

6. Dressed in such a way that it will scare the shit out of whoever spent the money to have this sign made up

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