Is There More in the Bible Than This?

He quotes pagans as if they are right. He says women virtually asked to be unloved when they quote, look down on their husbands in the book of Esther. The male fear of contempt is dramatized in the first chapter of Esther. What was the fear that wives would start to despise their husbands and defy them? There would be no end to the contempt and anger poured out by wives on their husbands throughout the king's realm. And so it's so important that women do not show contempt for their husbands. That is a dangerous theology.