Furthermore, in response to previous attempts at defending an "it's cultural" viewpoint, here is my take on the slavery is abolished so women's submission is likewise able to be abolished in our current culture: just because we have abolished slavery, does not mean it was wrong. The atrocity of slavery was the cruelty of the masters toward their slaves. The Bible does not condemn slavery, nor women's inequality, it does however clarify the importance of a master being just and kind. The same is found for women, the Bible clearly commands men to love their wives and it dictates that they are the head of their wives, where as women are told to be submissive and quiet. It isn't an association with the cultural views of that time to follow these Biblical ideas, it is cultural, however, to downplay the role of the Bible in everyday life as well as to make theology and Biblical principles out of pagan tradition. I choose to not follow cultic ideas found in culture, and take truth straight from scripture.