Christian Women

I'm a Christian.

And I'm proud to call myself that. I attend church as regularly a possible, try not to swear a lot, participate in church activities, give back to the community and try to be an all around good Christian.

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Try to be an all around good Christian? What does that mean?

I think a lot of people struggle with this one. For a lot of people it's going to church every Sunday, not swearing at all, not drinking AT ALL (let alone before you're 21), not watching "bad" movies, no sex before marriage, being nice to everyone, hanging out with other Christians, all that good stuff we assume goes along with being a Christian.

And that works for some people. But not me.

See, I was reading this article on Xanga written by this woman who says that women should try to wear as little makeup as possible because makeup is something worldly and a lot of women depend on it to cover up their true selves. They use it as a crutch to cover up a not strong sense of inner beauty, weather they know it or not. Ok, I can understand that cause I don't wear makeup a lot and I feel that I have a very strong sense of inner beauty.

But then this woman made this comment to the article:

"I think it's respectful to your husband to wear makeup, because you look better with it. It's just like taking care in our dress and how we fix our hair...it's part of being feminine. " http://www.revelife.com/738047293/taking-off-your-makeup/

..... WHAT?

So, it's respectful to my husband to hide my inner self and glob on foundation that clogs my pours and put on eye shadow that makes me look like a whore?

Ok, that's a bit intense, but still.

I don't understand why a lot Christian women have this subservient attitude. They have the ideal that they need to get married and have a husband and have lots of kids and stay home and take care of them all day to be a good woman. Yes, I want to marry my boyfriend and have kids with him, but I also want my own job and be able to contribute equally to our household. Does this make me a bad Christian woman? No, it just makes me different from most of the Christian women I know.

Where are the Christian women who want to bring home their own bacon and could care less about what a man thinks about you? Why is it so often that strong women do not believe in religion and think its a crock?

Like, when I think about the women in my church, like the adult females, I find most of them to be rather wishy washy or extremely bitchy. It's like none of them have a true sense of right and wrong and they can't stand up for their morals. None of them are confident, robust women who can be leaders. So what ends up happening is that the men become the leaders and the women fall to the back and just make food.

And it bugs the hell outta me.

So what is there to do? There's stepping up and being an example, which I try to be to the youth in my church. But they're all teenagers and have their heads so far up their asses its hard to get through to them. There's trying to get involved with the adults, but that's also hard to because they are old and set in their ways and any change just rocks the boat to much.

Well, there is always the old stand by of "Be the change you want to see in the world".

Yeah, but that gets old after a while also when you don't see that change.

So, once again, what is there to do?

I don't know. Have to think about that one for a while.

Over and out ♥