Women's Role

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Originally Posted by Drake

you cannot possibly know if the function of Ruth Lee, Peace Wang, Dora Yu, ME Barber, etc. would be accepted today.They were then and they could now.

I "know" if I can possibly know anything; if I know water is wet, or corn is (usually) yellow. These women couldn't function today. Because no women can function today. So how could they function? By repeating the message of the Oracle? Is that what they did?

By pray-reading bullet points? Because that is what they did? By speaking 2 minutes on Sunday morning of what they 'enjoyed' from HWFMR?

How could they function today? How could they do anything like what they did?

Now, suppose by way of comparison, any other functional saint of yore would fall into the same issue. Wesley couldn't function today in the Methodist Church, or Luther in the Lutheran Church, or Edwards in the Congregational Church (the last one I do believe!). Does that make the "Lord's Recovery" hypocrisy any less glaring? Even if it were so? Where's the pure and spotless bride? Claiming everyone else is as sullied as she? Ignoring and hoping you not think about how she's built, at least in part, on the revelations and teachings and spiritual visions of those who today couldn't even share 5 minutes from the lectern?

And remember, it's not like the "Lord's Recovery" used these women and then pretended they didn't exist. No, they're loudly and repeatedly trumpeted as lionesses, pillars of the early "Recovery" church's vision. And not one could even give a Sunday message in a "Lord's Recovery" local church. Simply because they're women. Not one pamphlet from any of them. Not a page. Not a word.

I'm trying to think of a hypocrisy that could possibly be more glaring, either real or hypothetical. No dice - this one is the high peak, the consummation, the crystallisation. (of course I'm subjectively biased, I admit; emotionally invested in my argument. But still it's got to be somewhere near the top).