cheers, Wordage.

I like that you put so much thought into your refusal criteria. I usually just refuse if the comment gives me the heebie jeebies (like the freaky guy who called me a misandrist when I drew a picture of my husband purchasing little girl skivvies at Wal-Mart.) However, I don’t typically post on controversial topics that might attract the dreaded non-punctuator.

Well, I guess we’re even, considering the mess you made about anime. :)

1) Facing off with a wolf spider IS love. That’s not shallow at all. ICK.

2) Even though I didn’t specificially mention it, I was talking about the whole chapter, not just verse 22 in my rediculously long comment. Arbitrary verse numbering is a big downfall of the KJV based translations (read: 99% of them published in english).

3) Comments that don’t make the cut include one or more (and almost always more) of the following factors:

- Written in all uppercase.
- More quoted biblical passages than commentary.
- Direct hostility to non-literal views of scripture.
- Direct hostility to non-Baptist/Catholic/Scientology views.
- Refusal to use punctuation.
- Comments that exceed the origional post length by more than a factor of three.

Long comments, stingy punctuation and a heavy use of the imperative voice are fine if you’re a regular commenter. In fact, unless you’re being hostle or rude, I can’t imagine yanking a comment from an approved commenter…

And I’ll never EVER yank something by Essaytch after skewing her google search so baddly with some of my own comments on her blog…

But if your first comment breaks three or more of the above general guidlines, you’re not gonna be approved.

And on that note, I’d point out that I’ve refused more comments to this post SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING than I’ve gotten on the rest of my blog.

Apparently Adam and Eve really bring out the crazies. Although most of the last batch were REALLY upset over Ephesians 5:22…

If you all want, I’ll collect some of the more choice chunks from “the refused” and make a new post out of it. That should make them happy, right?

In fact, a family member is the wife of a Southern Baptist minister, and in college (when I was in the midst of my all-out Christian zeal), she and I got into a discussion of this very Bible verse in the kitchen one Thanksgiving. She took the position (one that was obviously hammered home in her household) that wives should submit and almost worship their husbands, as Eph 5:22 demands. I innocently responded along the lines mentioned above, and I’ll never forget the look on her face. It was as if she had never heard verse 25 before, and a light was suddenly switched on in her brain. I’d like to think that her hubby caught a little hell from his formerly-submissive wife after that.

Oh, and ALLISON: You’re not shallow. If I had a husband to step in and take care of a wolf spider for me, I’d think it was love too. As it stands, I have to overcome being paralized by fear in order to roll up a magazine and kill the f*@!er myself. *sigh*

I feel so shallow after reading this post. My husband took care of a wolf spider (who wanted to cohabitate) for me, and I thought that was love. Sure, I had to threaten to call my daddy (how sad is that for a woman in her [early] 30′s?), but he did it and that’s what counts.

So bear in mind that while the entymology of Ephesisians is interesting, and potentially even discussion-worthy, it doesn’t guide my personal moral compass.

Following or just laughing at Ephesisians chapter 5 are equally valid spiritual decisions in my mind. As for how to live a married life, I don’t think Paul had any particularly good insights…as a confirmed bachelor he wasn’t exactly preaching from a place of experiance.

But for clearity, I don’t believe that the word “submit” (or submission, OR subdued) is an appropriate translation of the greek word “υποτασσεσθε”.

It’s a verb that implies COOPERATIVE action, not singular behavior.