PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 6
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One of the defects of human nature is to look down on others so that we feel better about ourselves. The treatment of females in Africa, the Mideast, and Asia is obviously deplorable. But do Western men, at least in part, look down upon the developing nations’ treatment of women so as to justify their own patriarchal culture as not being so bad? If the West is to lead by example, should not the Christians of the West cast their own patriarchic mote out of their own eye so as to better help our brothers and sisters of all faiths cast that deplorable mote out of their own eyes? If not, are we then hypocrites?
Since all the syllogisms based on superstitions, misunderstandings, and arrogance are built on false premises, why do their false conclusions still linger as though true? The conclusions drawn from faulty syllogisms are slowly going the way of the fallen, dead leaves swirling in the wind and being sucked toward that coffin of dust, like star dust sucked into a black hole. The minds that nurture them are being swept away with the dead leaves. Spending eternity stuffed with erroneous beliefs and buried in a fifty-foot cube of cement is not my vision of living in the heaven of Truth. The stench of decaying error would be horrible! To paraphrase the master poet, “To yield to truth, or not to yield to truth: that is the question.”