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[nzthepirate]

I haven't told a lot of people (or maybe I have...), but I'm currently doing volunteer training for the Center for Women and Children. Legally, they have to do 40 hours of training, so we do 8 weeks of five hour sessions

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[shatteredhavoc]

on the flip side, there are also a lot of churches that have ministries devoted towards counseling & loving people who have been abused and getting them away from their abusive relationships.

i totally get what you're saying, tho. and there's no denying that it does happen, unfortunately so. and i know people get all fussy over the whole "wives submit to your husbands". and often that phrase it taken out of context so a husband will control his wife. and what i mean by taken out of context is that those words aren't the only words there. if you read on in the same passage it says:

"Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body...However, let each one of you love his wife as himself."

people like to pick & choose and use the bible as means to their own end to serve their own purposes. and it's sick. i've heard many a time about husbands who destroy their wives and fall back on, "well it says that wives should sumbit" but they don't have the balls to man up and take on the responsibility that is charged to husbands in the very next verse.

religious tones aside, it's clear that we all agree that this kind of behavior is jacked up and no one ever deserves to go through this. truly it's sadness. the world is a messed up place sometimes, but i'm glad to see that people out there do care and want to work to make a difference. it's encouraging (:

[poxydoo]

I'm glad that after reading this post, the most important thing you had to say was a defense of your own ideologies.

[asklepiades]

i think nz said the most important thing already..?

[poxydoo]

Sarcasm.
Also, I'm not saying that what Ryan said was important, I'm saying that he considered what he said to be the most important thing for him to say in response to the post.