From the article:<p><pre><code>    &gt; Indeed, in many conservative religious denominations,
    &gt; the same tenets are echoed today.
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While I&#x27;m not going to claim I hold the same tenets as a book I&#x27;ve never read, I guess that I&#x27;m in one of the &quot;conservative religious denominations&quot; which the author is indicating here.  I can certainly see some resemblance between a few of the examples cited from the book and my current (religiously-inspired) views on marriage.<p>However, one thing I&#x27;d like to explicitly disclaim is the notion that there is any prescriptive support in the Bible for the victorian-era idea that wives should be Doormat Debbies, as alluded to throughout this article.<p>The most often-cited passage in this regard is Ephesians 5:22-24...<p><pre><code>    Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do 
    to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife
    as Christ is the head of the church, his body,
    of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits
    to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands 
    in everything.
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If this is all you know of &quot;Christian marriage philosophy&quot;, please take the time to inform yourself.  I&#x27;d suggest you find someone who claims to follow the Bible in their marriage and ask them how this passage specifically plays out in their married life.  (Hint: If the passage is truly being followed, what you will find is anything but a bully of a man and a brow-beaten woman)