Wives, Submit Ye … Get in Line!

I’m currently teaching a class, De-Canonizing the “Da Vinci Code.” Tonight, toward the end of our session, we visited Genesis 3, the “curses” upon Man, and the casting out from Paradise. Of course, one of the “penalties” is that the woman longs for — and submits — to her husband.

Here’s an email I later received from a female parishioner:

“Is this what you were talking about?”

FWD …

When everybody on earth was dead and waiting to enter Paradise, God appeared and said, “I want the men to make two lines; one line for the men who were true heads of their households and the other line for men who were dominated by their women. I want all the women to report to St. Peter.”

Soon, the women had gone and there were two lines of men. The line of the men who were dominated by their wives was 100 miles long, and in the line of men who were truly heads of their households, there was only one man.

God said, “You men should be ashamed of yourselves. I created you to be the head of the household. You have been disobedient and not fulfilled your purpose. I told you to be the leaders in your families. Of all of you only one has obeyed. Learn from him. Tell them, my son, how did you manage to be the only one in this line?”

The man replied, “I don’t know. My wife told me to stand here”