Atheists, how would you have handled the situation in Corinthians?

Question

Paul just got some new converts from the nearby pagan goddess temple. So naturally, they all thought they could just say what they want because they were probably high priestess and stuff like that. So how else was he supposed to get them to stop talking in the church without making it a rule of the church?

That my friends, is the great question. Paul did what he could, but what would you do? Didnt Paul just do the exact same thing you would have done?

Answer 1

I would help the Pagans slit his throat

Answer 2

what don't you post the passage you are talking about , are you afraid of something ? the gospel isn't for cowards but for brave men.

Answer 3

A belief system that cannot stand up to questions isn't a very strong belief system.

Answer 4

I am a proponent of free speech, so I would have no problem with them talking in the church.  Maybe they would even bring up some useful discourse instead of ritualistic indoctrination into their new religion.

Answer 5

As an atheist I wouldn't be converting people so this question is rather unanswerable. I guess if I was Paul I'd go do something useful with my time instead of follow a man who was consumed by delusions of grandeur.

Answer 6

Personally...I would have closed down the church and ended Christianity there and then. So deutsch bags like you wouldn't direct stupid questions like this to atheists like me :)

Answer 7

I can't wait until the whole world is largely free of the chains of Paul's mind and his blinkered doctrines.

Answer 8

. . . . . I find your dwelling on the subject of women being quiet kind of. . . . archaic.

Answer 9

Paul hated women, I wouldn't trust a single word he ever said

Answer 10

There's more to it than big-mouthed ex-priestesses.

You see, the Bible makes it clear that women try to usurp men - and pretty much any married man will agree with that.

The idea of keeping women from preaching also keeps women in their God-appointed place, not as master of men but as helpmeet.

Eve is another example. She did what she knew she shouldn't do, then persuaded her husband to follow her. It was going against the natural order of things.

  

Answer 11

I, my friend, would have hit the Corinthians over the head with my cane and stolen the leather interior in their Chryslers and/or Cadillacs

Answer 12

I do understand it, and I would have done the same thing if I were in the same situation and had the same motivations as Paul.  That just shows that Paul was creating doctrines based on his personal agenda and opinions, and there is nothing particularly divine or "inspired by God" in what he said.

Answer 13

I would let them say whatever they want.

I have no say in what should be said or shouldn't be said.

I don't care if they were telling Teri Schiavo jokes, it still would not matter to me in the least.

Answer 14

No. No. No...

I would not have tried to quiet a few people by making a global docrtine.

Answer 15

Maybe they had something interesting to say.

I'd have kicked the pews into a circle and started a debate club.

Answer 16

If Paul had something really worthwhile and interesting to say they would have all quickly shut up and listened.

Shouting people down and suppressing their opinions just because they happen to be different is a bad habit shown by many religionists.

Answer 17

Wow, this is just retarded, but what the heck.

As an atheist, I would NOT have brought any one to a church. But you see, Paul could also have been interesting and they would have listened. He could have had leadership and they would have listened. I suppose he was neither so he needed to bully people into shutting up.

Now YOU can begin to understand the mind of Paul as well.

Answer 18

If that is in fact the reason for Paul making his statements against women speaking in church (which we don't know), then it is the fault of the CHURCH for turning those words into doctrine that even today, 2,000 years later keep women from being ordained.  So take it up with the church.  And stop asking all atheists, man.  You want to know what I think, just email me.

Answer 19

Paul dealt with real world problems in his time...HIS TIME, Lion, not ours.  It is not good to embrace the letter of the law above the spirit of the law...I think if you wish call yourself a Christian, you should know that above all things...

How was your trip to the synagogue?

Answer 20

I guess he could have had them burnt at the stake, OH WAIT that didnt happen until a few centuries afterwards

Answer 21

I wouldn't have bothered them to begin with.

Answer 22

I would have had some respect for their opinions, and if I could plainly show their logic was flawed, I would do so. Either that, or I would reevaluate my own logic.

Answer 23

I would have listened to what they had to say instead of stifling their thoughts and ideas with single-mindedness.