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The leader of a major Southern Baptist seminary issued a statement Sunday pushing back after a 2000 tape surfaced purporting to quote him saying that abused women should focus on praying and be submissive in every way that you can and not seek divorce.
Paige Patterson is president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Fort Worth school whose Web site says it is one of the largest seminaries in the world. About 15 million people are part of Southern Baptist churches, the largest Protestant group in the United States. Patterson is slated to deliver the primary sermon a high-profile honor in June at the Southern Baptist Conventions annual meeting in Dallas.
Patterson, who declined to comment Sunday, is heard on an audiotape being interviewed about what he recommends for women who are undergoing genuine physical abuse from their husbands, and the husband says they should submit.
It depends on the level of abuse, to some degree, Patterson says. I have never in my ministry counseled anyone to seek a divorce and thats always wrong counsel. Only on an occasion or two in his career, he says, when the level of abuse was serious enough, dangerous enough, immoral enough, has he recommended a temporary separation and the seeking of help.
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trueblue2007
(17,240 posts)jimmy2.0
(13 posts)"According to Patterson, the "highest and noblest calling of God" for women is that of "mother and grandmother." Additionally, Patterson's interpretation of the Bible includes "an assignment from God, in this case that a woman not be involved in a teaching or ruling capacity over men".
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)Lars39
(26,116 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)He goes on to tell the story of a woman who came to him about abuse, and how he counseled her to pray at night beside her bed, quietly, for God to intervene. The woman, he said, came to him later with two black eyes. She said: I hope youre happy. And I said Yes
Im very happy, because it turned out her husband had heard her quiet prayers and come for the first time to church the next day, he said
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that is some sick sh*t.