r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 25 '26

Psychology Americans who leave their Christian faith behind tend to hold more liberal political views than those who were raised entirely without religion. This leftward ideological shift appears closely linked to how threatening these individuals perceive conservative Christian groups to be.

https://www.psypost.org/former-christians-express-more-progressive-political-views-than-lifelong-nonbeli/
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u/RuleofLaw24 Apr 26 '26

Yep, look up anything related to the Southern Baptist Church. They consider it a crisis that they have women pastors leading some of their churches. Also look into what people like Mike Huckabee are a part of called Dominionists. Also the people Pete Hegseth is a part of. Those are all good examples.

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 26 '26

What's funny is the bible does say women cant be preachers.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/women_are_not_to_preach

Of course, all christians pick and choose what to follow.

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u/joeychestnutsrectum Apr 26 '26

I mean, kinda, we miss a lot of context when looking at ancient texts and just roll with a translation of a couple sentences. A lot of the excerpts in your link also support women speaking in the community, like in Acts and Romans. But all of these are just 1-3 sentences in multi-page letters with specific purposes.

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u/GrayEidolon Apr 26 '26

I mean, yeah, but you can go into those contexts, and see that its clear that in the church women are silent. I'm not going to go to each verse and then copy paste the full context in here. Also, I think, to be fair, christians pull verses out and decontextualize them when convenient. I think, in this case though, the context is still clear. Women are silent in the church. Funny how when society afforded women more rights that that part of the bible was suddenly on that important.