Sympathy for Delilah: How Pride, Narcissism, and Promiscuity Allowed Delilah to Become the Ultimate God of Samson’s Fate
“Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.” — Judges 16:15
The story of Samson and Delilah told in Judges 16:1–31 of the Holy Bible has always been interesting (and sexist) to me, especially when examined from a feminist, or any alternative, perspective.
I remember hearing the story in church as a girl.
I didn’t understand why the Pastor (and every other member of the congregation) spoke ill of Delilah.
“She was vile. She was wicked. She was filthy. She was a prostitute. She was a nag. She was a snake. She was temptation. She was lust. She was this. She was that. She was a foul woman. She was the type of woman every young boy should “learn about early”. She was the type of woman who could destroy even the strongest of men. She was Satan walking.”
She was a pretty woman, men found her enticing, and she knew; therefore, she was evil. This is all I gathered from the congregation’s unwarranted Sunday morning vitriol.
