Who Wrote the Rules? A Deconstruction of Biblical Patriarchy

📩 Take the free quiz: Do You Carry Religious Shame?https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/6a44800d942e4c694c93d768Somewhere right now, a woman is nodding along to the idea that her husband is the "head of the household" — not because it makes sense, but because a verse told her to. In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Thompson breaks down the actual architecture of religious patriarchy: the texts, the translators, the councils, and the psychological wiring that made hierarchy feel like holiness.This isn't a debate about whether God exists. It's a documented look at how religious institutions — across centuries and denominations — formalized male authority over women's bodies, minds, and choices, and why that pattern still runs quietly in the background of lives that think they've already moved past it.In this episode:The asymmetry between Ephesians 5:22 and 5:25 — and why one half became law while the other stayed a suggestionWho actually wrote, compiled, and translated the texts used to justify submission theologyThe witch trials as a case study in punishing female autonomyHow purity culture and chain-of-command obedience get installed in childhoodWhat selective "biblical literalism" reveals about power, not truthWhat reclamation looks like without requiring you to abandon faith entirelyThey didn't build the church to set you free. They built it so you'd thank God for your own oppression.