Times Of Swaziland: MEN MUST RISE ABOVE THEIR URGES

MEN MUST RISE ABOVE THEIR URGES
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Editor on 02/08/2024 08:14:00


Sir,
Since Adam and Eve’s days women’s fashions have changed throughout the
world, nearly as regularly as the seasons change. At one time it was a sin in
Europe to show your ankle beneath your skirt as this was said to be showing too
much flesh and was unbecoming of a proper lady.
Changed
Women in Africa have, over many generations, adorned their bodies with beads,
sea shells, furs and feathers. Women in Jerusalem, in Jesus’ days, wore
jewellery, revealing robes and make-up on their faces. Hairstyles changed nearly
as quickly as the fashions. Sometimes people become so informative about how
‘right’ they are concerning fashions that they are prepared to kill to
defend their viewpoint. Dictator Pol Pot of Cambodia killed everybody who wore
glasses. And yet, if you go to Cambodia today, you will still find people who
wear glasses.A joke retold over many years in Southern Africa about a boy we
will call Jonnie, is a reminder to all Christians on how careful we should be
when we try to interpret the Bible. The story goes like this.
Teaches
Father Michael arrives at the weekly Religious Education class where he teaches.
“Children, who can tell me the name of God our father in Heaven?” asked
Father Michael. “I know!” Jonnie replied, raising his hand excitedly. “His
name is Harold and he is an artist,” Jonnie announced proudly. “No, no, no
Jonnie, who told you that?” Father Michael asked while frowning fiercely.
“You did Father. You taught us how to say ‘Our Father who does art in
Heaven. Harold be thy name…’,” Jonnie replied innocently.
“No Jonnie, its ‘Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy
name’…,” Father Michael explained. I do not know if there is a verse in
the Bible which says women should wear dresses.
If some people think that the Bible wants all Christians to wear dresses, they
should try to read the Bible again, just in case they made the same mistake as
Jonnie from this story.
Type
Women sometimes say, about a certain type of man, that; “…men think with
their brains or with their family jewels, but cannot manage to think with both
at the same time.”
I sincerely hope that this is untrue and that my brothers out there are able to
rise above such basic urges and accept women as soul bearing human beings, in
jeans or dresses or anything else they might decide to wear in the future. And
you can rest assured that fashions will change and women will wear whatever
their individual personalities inspire them to wear.