The Persecution of Women in the Church

[MissBrattified]

Okay, I tried. I read to post #123, and now I'm thinking: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah *deep breath* blah blah blah blah.

So here are my opinions: (whether they relate to the thread or not)

1. Some women have experienced abuse at the hands of Apostolic men.
2. Some of those women blame the church as a whole for their abuse, at the very least for creating an environment that could support male dominance which can support abuse.
3. Some women have never experienced abuse at the hands of Apostolic men.
4. Some of those women are ridiculed because they have on rose colored glasses and paint mental roses on the jerks they go to church with, thereby missing the stench of abuse that reeks from the perpetrators of said abuse.
5. Porn and something about modesty.
6. I've really lost my train of thought.

Okay, try again....

My church friends are both male and female, and I like all of them. I think all of them are just great! I admire them, respect them, and don't like to think that someone would misjudge their character simply because of the church they attend. I don't know of any abusers among them.

I have witnessed one particular pastor name-calling, yelling and posturing from the pulpit...I would call that abusive behavior. I didn't let it oppress me. I removed myself from his presence, authority and influence. Well, my husband helped remove me. My lovely, strong, protective, Apostolic husband. He (the pastor) persecuted me. But I'm smart enough to differentiate in my mind and come to the conclusion that HE was abusive, and that it would be prejudicial and stereotyping, and downright racial profiling to say that ALL Apostolic men are abusive based on that one experience.

P.S. He wasn't/isn't UPCI.