smitten on Nostr: Christianity is treated as identical to the family hierarchy but that's an artificial ...

Christianity is treated as identical to the family hierarchy but that's an artificial connection. Jesus did not talk about the family much at all. What little he did say was about leaving your family! He did teach children but not through their parents, he taught them directly or answered their questions directly. He probably didn't have children and didn't marry, or if he did it wasn't important to his ministry. The only thing the patriarchs have to hang their hat on is that he talked about "the Father", and the gospels differ a lot on that, it's mostly John and Matthew who are big on it. All this stuff in modern Christian churches where the husband is below God and the wife is below the husband is just totally added on and made up, yet they treat it as the core idea.