January 30, 2014
Rebekah Mays writes for On Pop Theology about hearing the Christmas story with fresh “newly-formed liberal-feminist” ears and finding it to be offensively sexist.
“All this to say, while listening to the Annunciation story, my carefully watered, Biblically liberal, skipping-Ephesians-4-when-I-read-the-Bible Christianity-in-a-pot began to wither. A part of me had been convinced that, if I focused on the “Jesusy” passages in the gospels, I would get to the heart of what Christianity was, and not have to worry about troublesome things like the sexism all over the Bible. But this isn’t even a passage that you can skip over. This is the story of how Christ was born – it’s kind of important. And even this story is problematic.”
She goes on to explore how we react to parts of Scripture or orthodox religious beliefs that we find offensive.
Read “The Christmas Story is Sexist and Faith Isn’t Nice” here.
