Talk:Christian wife

Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. - 1 Timothy 2:11-14

This passage is used to describe a woman's role with respect to the church. That is, she is to be silent and not take leadership over a man in, say, being a preacher. While submission is mentioned in other areas of the Bible, this is not specifically referring to the Christian wife and I believe is misleading. FWIW, many commentators believe that woman were speaking out and causing disruption in the early churches, causing this instruction to be given. -- Ram-Man

I'm not quite sure what this page is doing here anyway. I'd say move it to meta. -- Tarquin 10:56 Dec 9, 2002 (UTC)

how about redirecting to/merging with Christian view of marriage ? Martin

Yes please! Good idea! -- Tarquin 14:23 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)

Some anonymous user (169.229.53.221) doesn't agree, and also didn't agree with a similar redirect of wife to marriage. Perhaps he or she could tell us why here? Martin

Agree agree. I was gonna put some time into making this less ... offensive, but let's just wait a few days for any counterargument and then redirect. - Dreamword 02:42 Feb 28, 2003 (UTC)

Our anon user's contributions speak for themselves. That same IP provided: "A wife is the female spouse in a married couple. According to religious authorities, it is the will of God that the wife be subservient to her husband" as the entire text of wife. It is important that we discuss and ponder major changes, trying to reach consensus wherever possible, but it is also important not to allow Wikipedia to become a hostage to kookery. (Anyone wants to dig the content out of history and move it over to somewhere where it won't be so offensive and might add something useful, go right ahead. In this place, devoid of context, it is just offensive to no purpose.) Tannin 03:14 Feb 28, 2003 (UTC)