How do you feel about Biblical Paul's statement,"Let your women be silent in Church."?

Well any woman who chooses to read the bible. Has all ready accepted and digested various instances of misogyny. Why should this passage offend them more than any of the fables in the bible? Christianity isn't the most feminine positive religion.
How do I feel about the passage? I think everyone should be silent in church and not just women. How can you hear god speaking if you're too busy talking? And if women are the only silent ones then maybe that would make them more spiritual than men too.

People who spend time talking about God usually don't know a damn thing about it anyways. So fine, let the women be silent. It just makes us look better.

The Bible is not the feminist way of life, ok everyone agree. Paul is talking about the orderly flow of the church service, women espeaciall at that time were not well educated. Paul is directing this mostly to women who distract thier husbands and others with endless questions or talk during the time the worship and preaching of God's word is being done. Be silent and ask the question later is what Paul is getting at.
Paul was not a person who believed that women should preach or teach men in the church, thier role was different than the man's. But many times during his travels he would have studies with women, or come across women who were teachers of God's word and he accepted them as such. If you read what Paul is talking about overall in the passage you will see what he was really dealing with and yes Paul had strong feelings about how woman should be in Church.

I think it's prety f ucked up and another good example of why the bible is an evil book.

Were you at church with us today simmone. This topic came up. After church we discussed it. It was decided either the statement was meant for whatever Paul was talking on in that place at that moment for them to be quiet then. Either that or most agreed it meant only concerning business matters. One of the men said women did more in church than men that with women quiet we would have to cease having church services.

i don't know. i've thought of it more than once though. the answer would be way to complicated to even get into.
i believe in equal rights and i also believe that "i am woman hear me roar" might not be the answer to everything in life.

As idiotic as religion and the church are in the first place

I believe it is because at that time women were not held in equal status as men. It might refer back to that 'we are different parts of the same body'. Women just had different duties / responsibilities. I believe this was 'mans rule' and had no consequence in heaven; the ten commandments and the two rules do. Paul does go on to say, though, that women do have equal rights to the kingdom of heaven.

That was right in his time when men were main bread earners with the use of their muscles.
Today, societies need much use of the hearts and the brains which women are more capable than men. So women must have equal or ever higher station than men.

Actually, a lot of the women in the church he was preaching in at the time were former or current prostitutes. That's why he said for the women to cover their hair - the hair was like wearing revealing clothing and how prostitutes attracted men in that time period. This is most likely why he did not want them speaking up in church.

well , he may have a point , its only respectfull to be quite in church , its like talking in the cinema only they dont serve popcorn in church.

This is so 'not true', It may have been 'in old times' like in the 'old testament', But it certainly isn't soo in 2009 LOL!

MY best Friend is a pastor she speaks all the time at church,

Joyce Meyer speaks all the time We are Not in The Old Testement LOL!

God says we are all created in his image

The times were different when the Bible was written. It really doesn't apply to us anymore.

Some nice answers here. I think Allofus hit the nail on the head, and eviewils gave an interesting perspective I had never heard of before. Bravo to both.

The Bible is basically a history book. Whether or not you believe it is accurate or agree with what it says is another matter entirely. The fact of the matter is, you are reading material that was written over TWO THOUSAND YEARS ago. You simply cannot compare a 2000-year-old text to modern standards of equality and affirmative action. Guess what? In 2000 years, our current culture will look barbaric and uncivilized to our successors. You may choose to read the Bible in context with the culture it comes from, or you may choose to pull stuff out and be offended by it. It's up to you. Frankly, as long as a person is intelligent enough to see that was the way life was at the time, and does not try to force women into this way, then there is really no reason to be upset by it.

Christianity and Islam came from the Judaic Religion and took on board the ingrained misogynistic attitudes of Judaism. It was in Genesis of course that Eve 'tempted' Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit and caused 'the fall of Adam' and thereby to Adam goes the concept of 'original sin'! But it's implicit in the story that it was all the fault of Eve! So if female Christians like the idea of 'it's all their fault', then Amen!

And pukirahe "hearts and the brains which women are more capable than men" ...I see crass generalisation, not to mention sexism, is alive and well still lol.

an atitude of the times - no longer relavent

It wasn't about not loving God. Most of those in Church were women. He just didn't want them running everything. It came from the Jewish tradition that women didn't have to learn to read and study the scriptures.