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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why no jewelry? Aside from the Amish (whom I don'tmind because they tend to be pretty damn friendly and generally of the "live and let live" mindset), I've never known of any Jesus Freaks who decry jewelry.
What on Earth is the basis for an anti-jewelry stance?
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In the bible it states that woman are to be "unadorned" (ie not wear baubles). ( I Timothy 2:9-10 9. In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; I Peter 3:3-4 3. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel)
There is also a passage about women keeping their yaps shut in church and allowing only their men to speak for them ("Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.")
I like this type of passage because my friend is a JW and I like to piss her off when she speaks of following the literal reading of the bible -- she tells me that the above-referenced passages do not apply (for whatever reason) so she can wear her diamonds and speak at the Hall.
**I am not religious. I know very little about the bible. I just like to be argumentative. Leave me alone.
