So, we are back to this discussion of feminism and the society.

With the high rise of women standing up for their rights and asking for equality, there has also been a rise in cases of divorce.

Something or someone has to be blamed for it, right?

The founder of Living Faith Church popularly known as Winner’s Chapel, David Oyedepo has pinned the cause of divorces to the idea of women’s liberation.

While presiding over the third service of his church in Ota, Ogun State on Sunday, he noted during his sermon that the increasing call for and approval of equality between women and men has spilled into their marital lives.

He added that such women now equate themselves with their husbands against the biblical doctrine which states that women ought to be submissive to their husbands and that men should love their wives.

In buttressing his point, he also stated that cases of divorce were most common in the western world because people in such places have thrown the dictates of God away and have instead started imbibing self-made laws that allow them to live with near-absolute freedom.

So what Oyedepo is saying?

Is seeking for equality among genders breaking homes?

Standing up to take decisions and responsibilities as well as a refusal to be silent when mistreated is the cause of divorces?

Not following the “scriptural” guideline of women “submitting” husbands has led to widespread divorce?

Which begs the question, does submission means one should feel less inferior or lower to the other?

Is Bishop Oyedepo lying? Many women took their husbands trash in those days because they didn't have a choice/say. Now women have a say..

— Princess Pepisko Pepeye (@MissIgho) August 24, 2015

Oyedepo is wrong. The idea of liberation or feminism is not the reason for divorces. Marriages are sacred. Something as simple as feminism isn’t breaking it, a lot has to happen to cause separation which leads to divorce.

In the past, women were used to suffering in silence, taking everything in without voicing out an opinion, which had worked fine for them.

Women standing up to their rights, taking decisions or voicing opiniosn doesn’t make them less submissive. It just brings them to the same level of equality, which i think is ordained biblically, a helpmate, partner not an inferior person.