Thanks - I was hyperbolically exaggerating somewhat and had more in mind the sort of Plymouth Brethren set up my wife was forced to endure whilst growing up rather than anything specifically American, where women weren't allowed to go on to further education because, 'quite clearly', God's Word said that was 'worldly knowledge', and were married off at 17-18 to churn out a new child every year like some kind of baby factory
There are positions between those extremes.
If you imagine every compatiblist a Plymouth Brethren, you have created a false enemy in you your imagination, and if you spend your life reacting to, and overreacting to, the way in which your wife was raised, you are actually still being controlled by them.
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