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Why Should Women not be Permitted to go Topless in Public?

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Wait...what?


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When Adam and Eve sinned God made clothing to cover their nakedness since whatever they made wasn't doing it. So, in this sense God made clothing for people. And living under the assumption that God is good then to cover nakedness was a good reason. We should be arguing to cover nakedness...rather than arguing to reveal more nakedness imo.


How much nakedness should we cover? I don't know exactly. If someone versed better in the Bible than me could give something that would be helpful!
 
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Woo! Hi! It's awesome to find someone friendly here

And maybe I'm the minority here but it seems like a lot of people are pro women walking around topless which I don't understand? I understand there are a lot of men here but...haha I guess I'm just too conservative? I'm a woman and would never do that.


It just doesn't seem like something Jesus would support....imagine his mother walking around half naked? I just, don't get it. XD Maybe I'm weird?
 
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Seems amusing that it's a GUY that wants legality for topless women in public. I can't say I know any women who want to remove their tops. I'm sure there ARE some, but, it's obviously a minority. I wonder WHY it's such a big deal to YOU?
 
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Seems amusing that it's a GUY that wants legality for topless women in public. I can't say I know any women who want to remove their tops. I'm sure there ARE some, but, it's obviously a minority. I wonder WHY it's such a big deal to YOU?

Dawww! Look at that shaming language! It's so cute!

Almost topless women protest for right to bare it all - San Antonio Express-News

Nope it's not like it's women protesting for the same rights men have. Nope.

So remember guys, shut up when it comes to womens issues or else a woman will insinuate you are a perv. And totally stop supporting breast cancer research, they know the real reasons why you want healthy breasts.
 
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Please admit that I DID say that there ARE some. But, they ARE a minority.
 
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Anyone who doesn't realize the two genders operate differently shouldn't be in on this thread. there is very different wiring sexually. These protestors are very out of touch with their own instincts but it's not about that at all. It is about the destructive agenda of the Left to create as many kinds of anarchy as possible; this one happens to be in the area of genders. It is trying to say there is no difference. It is trying to do what God alone does in justification by faith in Christ: to bridge differences. It does not exist in the day to day. It cannot. Only in Christ is there 'no difference.'

The Bible is absolutely clear: sexual expression belongs between one woman and one man in marriage.
 
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Seems amusing that it's a GUY that wants legality for topless women in public. I can't say I know any women who want to remove their tops. I'm sure there ARE some, but, it's obviously a minority. I wonder WHY it's such a big deal to YOU?

The majority of those following @freethenipple and #'ing it are women.
 
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I can't believe that in a Christian forum this would even be brought up!!!
Women go topless in some of the more primitive areas of the world. The idea that exposure to naked breasts diminishes sexual activity is not supported by their population numbers. Anyone who has National Geographic has seen these breasts--most are not a pretty sight. Past a certain age gravity takes over. Obviously, I doubt very much anyone here is fighting for 80 year old women to have the freedom to go topless in public. Breasts on women are considered sexual organs, but not on men. Why, then stop at topless? You want equality of exposure, then the nether regions are more appropriate for the exposure of sexuality. The male breasts are not considered sexually erotic--the whole chest area is more erotic to women--hence the 6-pack is sought after, not men with enlarged breasts.
Just wondering how many men are so very anxious to go parading their privates--most don't have much to brag about anyway. Is anyone wanting to see naked 80 year old men also?? Now, to another 80 year old, that may be ok, but how many 25 year old ladies are interested?? How many men are willing to be compared to another?
If the first thing Adam and Eve did when they realized they were naked was to cover up with leafs, why, as Christians, esp., are we wanting to uncover?--Of course, they did have far more fully operational brains, having been made perfect in the first place, so they had far more sense than we do, but they were still stupid enough to listen to Satan instead of God. Thy at least, had the excuse of being ignorant and deceived. We are wanting to flaunt nakedness with our eyes wide open, deceiving ourselves into thinking it would be acceptable in God's eyes. One of Satan's greatest abilities is maneuvering us into lying to ourselves.
 
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I can't believe that in a Christian forum this would even be brought up!!!

It should be brought up. It is time for all to grow up and stop lusting. We are created this way. What thing happening needs to be kept secret? Who is afraid?

Clothed or nude, Gods will be done, even God was disappointed when man knew they were naked.

By the grace of God, we are going to reach that level of clean.


Being clothed only came when sin entered.
 
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When Adam and Eve sinned God made clothing to cover their nakedness since whatever they made wasn't doing it.

I assume that you are referring to Genesis 3:21. Yeah, I remembered the fig leaves, but forgot about that particular quote.

And living under the assumption that God is good then to cover nakedness was a good reason.

I'm not quite sure how to conclude that. Sure, one might suspect it, but it doesn't come across like a Commandment: "Thou shalt wear clothes!"

We should be arguing to cover nakedness...rather than arguing to reveal more nakedness imo.

Since Adam and Eve were created nude, I don't see why God would delay in providing clothes. We aren't told any reasons. Is it because life outside of the Garden of Eden is harsher on the skin? Or as a kindness to help with their feelings of shame?

But I think that a more reasonable reading of Genesis is that it is a kind of fairy tale explaining how people grow up from nude children into traditionally clothes-wearing adults. It is a creation myth, after all.


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And sin is still here and until it is wipe out---we will never get to that pure and clean state. Till then, if God felt we should be covered--then so be it.
 
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Since Adam and Eve were created nude, I don't see why God would delay in providing clothes. We aren't told any reasons.

Are you unaware of the Wesleyan Holiness teaching (which is unsupported in scripture) that A&E were created with this "ball of golden light" that covered them from neck to knees. While they had no clothes, their torsos could not be seen either. At the fall the light dissapated, allowing them to see each other and themselves for the first time.
 
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Are you unaware of the Wesleyan Holiness teaching (which is unsupported in scripture) that A&E were created with this "ball of golden light" that covered them from neck to knees.

Yeah, I was unaware of that.


eudaimonia,

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But this thread isn't about anyone going naked. It is about women having the right to go topless when men are permitted to go topless. And nowhere in Scripture does it indicated that the clothing that God made for Adam and Eve (if there actually was an Adam and Eve) covered their chests. It might have been nothing more than a simple loincloth.
 
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Seems amusing that it's a GUY that wants legality for topless women in public. I can't say I know any women who want to remove their tops. I'm sure there ARE some, but, it's obviously a minority. I wonder WHY it's such a big deal to YOU?

There is a difference between wanting people to do something and wanting them to have the right to do something. I suspect that relatively few women would go topless other than on beaches. But at least those who would choose to go topless wouldn't face the risk of being arrested.

I don't own a gun, nor do I want to own one. But I would go out and protest if the government ever tried to take away the right to own a gun.
 
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But this thread isn't about sexual expression. It is about women having the right to go topless in public, something that men can do.
 
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For those who seem to think that Scripture forbids women from going topless in public, please reread the OP.

Do you agree that scripture instructs us to dress "modestly?"
 
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Do you agree that scripture instructs us to dress "modestly?"

Did you read the OP? The provisions of Scripture that address modesty specifically mention overdressing.
 
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