How Easter became a #MeToo moment

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“But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.”
– Luke 24:11

The men refused to listen to her story. She was publicly smeared as a whore. And when she emerged as a celebrated advocate, powerful men tried to silence her because she threatened their status.

Nevertheless she persisted.

The woman we’re talking about, though, is not a leader in the #MeToo movement – the viral campaign raising awareness about sexual assault and harassment against women. She is Mary Magdalene, the first person Jesus appeared to after his resurrection, according to the New Testament, and the first person to preach the good news that he had been raised from the dead.
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My only issue with metoo is that, well, Hollywood’s tendencies attained almost cliche status. Sort of like going to work at a brothel and then being shocked to “learn” that sex is involved. Not saying that what Hollywood was doing was acceptable, just that that one would have to be incredibly naive to not realize that the casting couch is multi-purpose.
 
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My only issue with metoo is that, well, Hollywood’s tendencies attained almost cliche status. Sort of like going to work at a brothel and then being shocked to “learn” that sex is involved. Not saying that what Hollywood was doing was acceptable, just that that one would have to be incredibly naive to not realize that the casting couch is multi-purpose.
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So wanting to be in movies = accepting that people will try to rape you? Okay.

Going by that logic, I guess altar servers shouldn’t be surprised if they get molested, since the Catholic Church is so notorious in that regard.
 
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I used to visit CNN for news regularly. They are now a tabloid.
 
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good grief. now they’re trying to appropriate Mary Magdalene for their narrative? ugh.
 
My point is that advancement in Hollywood had a reputation for depending on a certain skill set.
 
So does altar serving. Not to mention getting As in college if you’re an attractive girl.
 
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There is a difference among children and adults. Sorry, but every man/woman made the decision… do we do A, B, and/or C with this director, or do we do something else.
 
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Sorry, but every man/woman made the decision… do we do A, B, and/or C with this director, or do we do something else.
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A lot of these people DID work in Hollywood as children/adolescents. Ever heard of Corey Feldman?

They didn’t make the decision to have someone else harass/molest them. This is bordering on victim-blaming.
 
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Once they became adults, they still had the choice. Yes or no. Look at several of the women virgin saints.
 
Go me, what is weird about this article is that probably the writer and some of those quoted don t even believe in the Resurrection!

And some of the rest are downplaying the second most important event of all time in favor of a current news-cycle fad.
 
I really wish people would stop dismissing “me too”. The movement has actually been in place since 2006, to highlight sexual harassment and worse against women of colour. It’s been used much more since the story about Weinstein, but it’s about how people think they are entitled to treat others.

The landlords who force their tenants into sex or they evict them.
All the men who catcalled one woman in a month.
The vulnerable people after an earthquake in Haiti, expecting fund relief but instead being treated as prostitutes by aid workers..
The woman who went to protest sexual harassment and was assaulted by police officers.

This is just a very, very small example of what “me too” is about.
 
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I was thinking the same thing. The press will even use people from the Bible to try to promote their agenda. I was thinking this is to lure Christians into buying into their twisted agenda.
 
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Their… anti-rape agenda? Oh, the horror! The sacrilege!
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The only problem with appropriating Biblical people for the cause, is that they are not telling the truth.

What CNN wrote about Mary Magdalene is completely false.
 
I saw this article yesterday :roll_eyes:

It seems like they think it’s a new revelation that Mary Magdalene stayed with Jesus at the Crucifixion and was the first person to find the empty tomb. We’ve all read the Bible… we are aware. Mary Magdalene has been called the “Apostle to the Apostles” for a long time.

Here’s a quote from the article:

“The women tell a meeting of the disciples that Jesus has risen and the men ignore them. Men make the same declaration later and they are literally worshipped as saints.”

A. We don’t worship saints
B. Those women are also saints
 
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