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<blockquote data-quote="Ishmael" data-source="post: 85416" data-attributes="member: 532">Using sex to gain membership is a consistent strategy among the Mormon Church and I think Jehovah&#039;s Witnesses? Among some other groups I&#039;m sure. It&#039;s one of the worst and easiest places to be tempted and often succeeds. You are very right in that Institutional Christianity and the people who push it -- often having these word salads -- are doing it for their own benefit or one they can&#039;t explain or name. The benefit usually is someone else above them getting funneled cash. Good thing that a true follower of Christ would understand where his work and his actions are leading and how he is preaching something in the opposite of what is taught in the text. Women are not commodities to be traded and used, they are people as well with a specific role and place that, while on a structural level puts her as a support, she is vital for total and proper function. The hijacking of something that begins to lead in the right direction into absurdity is common because those who are influencing it know what they are doing. Even if it just means more money in their pocket; people ACTUALLY doing the right thing is not profitable. They must lie and make up new interpretations of everything, or reframe it entirely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ishmael, post: 85416, member: 532"] Using sex to gain membership is a consistent strategy among the Mormon Church and I think Jehovah's Witnesses? Among some other groups I'm sure. It's one of the worst and easiest places to be tempted and often succeeds. You are very right in that Institutional Christianity and the people who push it -- often having these word salads -- are doing it for their own benefit or one they can't explain or name. The benefit usually is someone else above them getting funneled cash. Good thing that a true follower of Christ would understand where his work and his actions are leading and how he is preaching something in the opposite of what is taught in the text. Women are not commodities to be traded and used, they are people as well with a specific role and place that, while on a structural level puts her as a support, she is vital for total and proper function. The hijacking of something that begins to lead in the right direction into absurdity is common because those who are influencing it know what they are doing. Even if it just means more money in their pocket; people ACTUALLY doing the right thing is not profitable. They must lie and make up new interpretations of everything, or reframe it entirely. [/QUOTE]

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