Comments on: “Daddy’s Girl!”

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:11:13 +0000

If the Schlissels insist on basing their religious practices on the Old Testament and Jewish beliefs, they should at least get it right. Sarah’s argument that parents must be respected is correct, but it applies to both sons and daughters. She just brushes off the sons with a claim that she isn’t qualified to discuss the role of sons. Why? Has she never met a son? Do you have to be a son to get an idea of what it’s like? Give me a break. Sons and daughters are commanded to respect their fathers AND mothers, and the Bible even says to “fear” the mother. This father-daughter stuff is nonsense.

The Bible is also rife with examples of women who acted independently of the will of their husbands, and for the good of all involved. For example, Sarah orders Abraham to banish Hagar, and God tells Abraham that he’d better listen to her.

Devorah was a prophetess and a judge who led a revolt against a Caananite king! Yael saved the Jewish people by shoving a tent pole through the brain of an enemy general. There is a Jewish midrash that one of Korach’s followers in the bible (Korach rebelled against Moses) had a wife who knew her husband shouldn’t follow Korach or he’d be dead. She got her husband drunk, and when Korach and his cronies came to get him, she pulled off her head covering (i.e. acted very immodestly) to scare them away, which worked and thus she saved her husband. And all of these women are respected for their actions.

I know this is long, but Sarah’s little essay infuriated me, to say the least.

By: Dennise

Dennise — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:34:46 +0000

It looks like you don’t allow comments from God-fearing Christians who appreciate and strive to obey God’s Word, or do you have the guts to print this? Like the non-believers of old, you flock to crucify this attempt to serve God, because real consideration of what it says would convict you of mistakes you (as we all) have made and things you need to change in your own life. Well, as His Word warns, cast not your pearls before swine; enough said. (In case you would want to rise above swine status, read the holy Bible, be humbled, and seek to change. One of the 1st changes is to stay away from sites like this!)

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By: Belief System

Belief System — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:09:25 +0000

Well, they do love their allegience/subservience to authority figures and their simplified, well-ordered universes (such as one where the sun revolves around a flat earth).

I always find it amusing when these mental midgets try to show off their schoolbookin’ by getting all Grecian and using high-falutin’ language to show they can defeat the godless intellectual elites at their own game…

Sinners, beware! Your puny secular humanism is no match for my homeschooling, MBA, and Bible quotes! And now, stand in awe, as I harness the power of the internets to do gawd’s will by convincing everyone of my holy righteousness!

By: Honey

Honey — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:30:09 +0000

Wow. Somebody needs to be beaten about the head with the reality stick..

By: piotr

piotr — Thu, 19 May 2005 04:45:51 +0000

I got really enthusiastic about the advise in the “Daddy’s Girl”, but indeed, as a father I am in deep doo-doo if the girl is not given out by the time she is 14 (12 seems to be the right age to exercise the requisite authority, although even that stretches the envelope). Nowadays that is really hard.

Ultimately, the day comes when the hitherto chaste girl, unsullied by any unsupervised dates (well, hardly any), leaves home to study in a college. Perhaps I can give daughter a power-of-attorney to approve her meetings with godly men (and women?). This way she could attend only meetings that had my agreement. E.g. how to decide about cramming for an exam together with some heathens, if there are no godly young people around that know the subject equally well without knowing the particulars of the situation that are really not available 500 miles away?

By: Seamus

Seamus — Tue, 17 May 2005 07:54:33 +0000

Why do “Christian” men get to think with their little heads? Is that where their brains reside?

By: Bill S

Bill S — Tue, 17 May 2005 06:55:01 +0000

Actually, Vestal Vespa, to me it’s more like they think: “If you’re born with a vagina, you don’t get to use your brain.”

By: Vestal Vespa

Vestal Vespa — Tue, 17 May 2005 03:04:02 +0000

Criminy.

I don’t get the hardcore Christians who see women as these helium baloons- without proper tethering, they just bob around and get chopped up by ceiling fans and stuff.

By: mutant cat

mutant cat — Tue, 17 May 2005 01:53:35 +0000

Whoops, I was wrong, she is married. World O’ Crap has found the dirt on both Sarah and her father.

By: heydave

heydave — Tue, 17 May 2005 01:37:47 +0000

But think of the crux, for Chri’sakes! The CRUX!

By: Resonance

Resonance — Tue, 17 May 2005 00:47:18 +0000

Daddy’s Girl

I’m not an authority on parenting. And, sadly, don’t even possess a great deal of expertise on “courting.” But this whole mindset seems rather bizarre quaint to me:I define courtship as the discovery of a life-partner for a daughter under…

By: GuinessGuy

GuinessGuy — Tue, 17 May 2005 00:39:50 +0000

Somewhere, God is leafing through the Bible trying to figure out if He accidentally gave the father supersceding powers-
“Alright… Numbers 30 If a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by an obligation, in her father’s house, dododododo- Fuck!”

By: Vivek

Vivek — Tue, 17 May 2005 00:36:17 +0000

Of course, those who exalt independence, denying headship to a husband, will certainly deny it to a father.

So, Sarah, how about that Michael Schiavo?

By: brad

brad — Mon, 16 May 2005 23:11:13 +0000

Yum.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Mon, 16 May 2005 22:41:00 +0000

I think that it’s telling that the original “essay” came from The Chalcedon Foundation. What’s next? Reinstituting slavery? That’s sanctioned in the bible.

http://www.theocracywatch.org/rel_inst_chalcedon_jan21_05.htm

http://www.barf.org/archive/chalcedon/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominionism

By: et

et — Mon, 16 May 2005 20:35:51 +0000

Doesn’t every daddy want to be a pimp?

By: mutant cat

mutant cat — Mon, 16 May 2005 18:26:01 +0000

I doubt she’s married, then she wouldn’t be Daddy’s girl, she’d belong to another man. Oh and thanks for the link.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 16 May 2005 12:45:21 +0000

The original article was probably written by a guy. But I had my daughter read it, and she pointed out that in biblical times, girls were usually married off at about age 12. That is a very different thing than dating at 18.

By: Bill S

Bill S — Mon, 16 May 2005 11:53:15 +0000

No, mythago, she’s just confused about what decade it is. Being insane will do that to some people.