Submission is not About Superiority

Stephen Altrogge:

These days it can be dangerous to talk about a husband leading his family and a wife submitting to that leadership. To modern ears it sounds patriarchal. Sexist. Arrogant. Fundamentalist. As if, somehow, the husband is superior to the wife and therefore gets to lead the wife. Saying that you believe in the different roles of a husband and a wife is sort of like saying you believe in slavery. People assume that only a tyrannical husband and a doormat wife would hold to such things.

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