Is it possible to be a good Christian at the same time as being a feminist?

I'm me.

I'm a Christian, whole heartedly, not a non-feminist or a feminist, although I do not agree with exploitation in any form. This does not conflict with Christianity, for me...

Stargate, yes indeed. Pretty much EVERYTHING with the 'star' prefix

I'm a feminist and a Christian (although a very bad, very lazy one). I really think it depends what church you belong to as to whether your beliefs can be compatible. Even though I've lived in England for 8 years I still consider myself to really belong to the Anglican Church of Canada, because I can't get my head round this women bishops thing, which is making me increasingly irritable. I mean, we had our first woman bishop in the Canadian church in 1993!

curlew again, it depends on which branch of Judaism. Reform/Liberal Judaism and feminism = yes. Orthodox Judaism and feminism = god no, not in a million years. It's incredibly patriarchal.

It's all interpretation - no picking or choosing required. It just depends on your interpretation.

I am a Christian and a feminist curlew so I don't understand why you're saying its not possible

Am I right that you're saying that because you think people who believe in God are er... Deluded?

Did you say that before? Or am I misremembering?

Can you talk to your minister about it? I'm CofE and our vicar was really helpful to speak to when we were in the process of getting dd baptised. It was around the time of the Women Bishops vote and I was struggling... He and I will have to have more conversations about it at some point because I'm still struggling with it, but he welcomes the chat which I appreciate!! I think it's pretty hard to be a committed Christian and believe in equality for women but it takes people like us to be part of the institution to help them towards change.

You certainly can't be a catholic and a feminist. I suspect you actually can't be any sort of Christian and a feminist. I don't know enough about any of the world's other religions to make a judgement, although I have heard that Judaism and feminism to together quite well. I don't know, though.

Surely it is 'picking and choosing' to arbitrarily decide passage x from the bible does mean what it says, while passage y means something different to what it says?

I would imagine all the women in my church are feminists - the ones I know well are.

It's actually a brilliant sentence though with 2 completely dependant clauses:

'Submit to your husband as your husband submits to Christ' ( paraphrasing obviously)

So you do no obeying until your husband submits. And it can't be asked or demanded separately.

My own opinion is most organised religion and feminism do not, and never will, share common ground. It would mean women matter, innit? The recent Magdalene debacle in Ireland should tell a lot of people what the Catholic Church think of women - referencing in particular the 4 religious orders refusal to pay anything towards the redress scheme.,

I think of it as an ideal. Ideally you can look to and trust your husband to make a good family decision, stick up for you etc, take responsibility. Have harmony and agreement within the family.

Usually people have to have a lot of faith and work through some issues...

If a man truly loves his wife he wouldn't make or even want her to do her do anything that made her unhappy....

Its a bit of a catch 2 situation isn't it?

I am a Christian but a heretical one.

I don't think the Bible is the literal word of God. Just a representation/interpretation that must be looked at as an historical document. I just try to love God and love my neighbour. I don't think you need anything else.

I am open to the notion that God is simply an alien from a species far more advanced than our own.

Heretic.

I'm a feminist and a Christian, works for me.

I don't believe the passage is meant to be taken that way and modern, liberal Christians don't believe literal interpretations of the passage quoted.

What sort of church was it?

I am so sorry for an unhelpful post but I am DYING imagining the congregation sitting, heads bowed respectfully, and you muttering a "fuck off" at everything the minister said!