[kawaii]

Perhaps if reading it as its written is 'reading into it':

1Cr 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

1Cr 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

1Cr 14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

1Cr 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

[Quix]

Yet again we run into the perseverating contradictory clubbing that

St Paul was full of stale, foul, evil air mangling purported Scripture

EXCEPT

when he offers something supposedly useful with which to beat Protesty's about the head and shoulders.

But of course, his more substantive challenges to hideous RC and Orthy !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! of men are to be ignored and trashed outright without a 2nd's thought.

Righhhhhht.

Colore me far less than impressed.

[HarleyD]

And, do the Orthodox ladies attend church and never say a word? Now THAT would be a miracle!! :O)

When Paul talks about women keeping silent, he's not talking about them shuting up; he's simply saying that they are not to have authority over the men. If, good Christian elders, deem that it's appropriate for women to teach children Bible class then that's fine. It has nothing to do with the men being subject to them. But I think it is inappropriate for women to preach, just as I'm sure you would agree that it's inappropriate for a woman to distribute the Eucharist.