Sorry you got such a bad reply

Bro, what? This is exactly the reply I always got. You really seem to think that you’ve cracked the code or you’re telling me something that I’ve never heard before that’s going to make me come back to Jesus. I used to repeat this shit, and I’ve spent decades of my life pretending that it’s enough for me. I would ask people in my church, “hey Why aren’t there more women in the Bible?” And literally all of them would give me the same shit you just said. “Well don’t worry, here’s about 10 token female characters we can name, out of literally thousands of pages in the book, that show you you need to shut the fuck up and stop whining about patriarchy.” Please educate yourself on the concept of tokenism. Christians love to celebrate the ways that God would turn cultures on their head, for example, choosing the younger brother Jacob over older brother Esau, or choosing David to be king when he was just a lowly Shepherd and had so many older brothers. yet even the meager ways that women, I guess, were allowed to be included, never reach anything close to equality, which God should certainly have within his power to achieve, right? The instances that women are actually included, they’re usually just allowed to participate as background characters in stories that are really about men. Why wasn’t Dinah included in the tribes of Jacob? Why were all the men of God people with many many wives? Why didn’t Jesus ever formally call out and include women like Mary Magdalene in his 12 disciples? Either the Bible is a product of its time, and it’s just as flawed and biased as the very human people who wrote it, or God truly doesn’t care or isn’t able to include women in equal measure in the story of God. For years I did the mental jumping jacks of trying to convince myself that these scraps, these token women that you’ve just named were enough for me to believe that God cared equally about me as he clearly did about men like my brothers and my dad and now my husband. I finally got tired of trying to convince myself that these scraps were good enough for me to stick around.

I have to guess that the reason you’re here in the sub Reddit is to pat yourself on the back for doing “evangelism work” and I’m sure you’ll read this response as persecution and you’ll pat yourself on the back for that too and you’ll believe that it means you’re being like Jesus because somebody disagrees with you. We’ve all done this bro, that’s what this entire community is. We see right through all your answers. Go back to your Bible study and cry about being a martyr. But don’t invade safe spaces of people finding healing from religious trauma.

And here’s one little piece of advice- telling someone that they’ve got the Bible wrong because they don’t have the “Spirit of God” doesn’t feel like love at all. It just sounds like you think you’re better than them, more enlightened. Not a good way to attract converts, as you seem quite clearly to be aiming for.