God is Dumb Once Again

Much has been written recently about a Watertown, New York, elderly woman who was fired after teaching Sunday School for 54 years for simply being a woman. See the Associated Press story, Ben’s blog post and Dan’s as well. It turns out that the story is more complicated than that — that the woman had been asserting herself and disagreeing with the pastor on church matters.

The pastor, however, apparently believes that women can fulfill any job whatsoever they put their mind and hands to — just not in the church. CNN, however, relates that the mayor and the city council may have been disturbed by this schizophrenic viewpoint since the city manager who runs the day-to-day operations of the city is a woman and also the fact that the pastor sits on the city council. Clearly, this story illustrates once again how patrarchialists drag God needlessly through the mud — a God who gives women teaching gifts and then restricts them from using them in promoting his own kingdom (at least the male half of it). Boy, does God come across as dumb.