I have been on the Internet since before it was the World Wide Web, I used to read Usenet (I especially liked alt.barney.die.die.die), so I am not a novice to the Internet. And I have been able to keep up with developments in the church — New Perspective on Paul, Emergent Church, churches not allowing Christian women to teach at all (or only children), churches where only the teaching elders or ruling elders are allowed to teach, etc. So as you can see I am not a novice to what is going on out there, but there are some things that I had no idea are going on.
I didn’t know that there are sites that encourage girls to refrain from going to school and are being trained to be a wife and mother with either their parents are another couple (go here for more details and make sure you read the comments). I didn’t realize that there are pastors in the PCA church who believed that the only calling for a woman is to be a wife and mother (fundamentalists yes, reformed no — there is a doctrine of vocation in reformed theology, so this was surprising). I didn’t know that there are reformed racist sites. I didn’t know that there are those who think that slavery is moral (biblical) and that includes the Sudan (I know because I asked).
I started this blog so that I could add my voice to the other orthodox voices out there and maybe the world could see that we aren’t all like Pat Robertson but I can see that what my husband said this morning is true: this is who we are. We are strange, we are a cult and the world is right in its assessment of us. I’m a little depressed by that thought.