Paul's view of a woman's head

My view is that what is being discussed by Paul is really the Jewish custom of headcoverings for men:

[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippah[/URL]

Paul says that this is not required or even appropriate for the new assembly.

The mention of the covering of women occurs because Paul is appealing to divinely established gender differences to show that it is inappropriate for a man to be covered. In otherwords, he is not setting out to establish a new custom about women, but debunking those who are insisting on a custom of which he disapproves:

[QUOTE]1Co 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. [/QUOTE]

In other words, they are keeping all the customs he delievered. The pressure they are getting to adopt male headcovering is ill-born.

[QUOTE]1Co 11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. [/QUOTE]

But in the process, he does make clear that he is no feminist, and any appeal to Gal 3:28 to suggest he is, are misguided. This verse has to do with qualification for inheritance from Abraham only:

[QUOTE]Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. [/QUOTE]

But in every other regard, Paul has very little to say to women other than "Shut up, listen and obey."

Paul says that in Genesis 6, when women shaved their heads, God's sons ("angels") so longed after them and the American Dream that they "left their first homestead" and came to earth and started families. (For this they will be tormented endlessly in Tartarus). This was a bad result, so all women from that time forward must cringe when they hear the song "Angels Watching Over Me" or "Angels Around My Bed" and, in the interest of public safety, maintain some kind of covering that not only covers the top, but also wraps around the sexy brain-box like a curtain around a casket. (The box is empty anyway, since she's a silly, not-to-be-trusted-with-authority woman anyway).

[QUOTE]
Jud 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

1Pe 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1Pe 3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

1Co 11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. [/QUOTE]

But Paul sees reasons other than the inherent danger that a woman's bare head poses to God's son's; his mind goes back to the fundamental difference of purposes assigned to male and female humans by God when they were designed. Men were designed to be living statues of God. They were to look just like him. The man would have a rod of authority dangling in front of his loins. The man is God's pride and joy. The woman, on the other hand, was designed when it became apparent that not even sheep were similar enough to him for handling many of the mundane chores there were to do on the farm, providing piano music before and after sermon time, cleaning up, etc, and also the man had a vague itch in his power rod. So, he made the spare rib into the "Swiss Knife" of accessories. She was Adam's pride and joy (since it flattered him that she originated from him). So, Paul reasons:

[QUOTE]1Co 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
1Co 11:8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
1Co 11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. [/QUOTE]

Finally, Paul also says, under immensely powerful revelatory influence, "A woman looks like crap when she's bald, don't you think?":

[QUOTE]1Co 11:13 Judge in yourselves [guyz]: is it comely [attractive] that a woman pray unto God uncovered? [/QUOTE]

So, women should have their heads covered (and handily, they have long hair to do the trick) and men should be uncovered (and so they must also not let the mop flop).