By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - The Bible praises women for, among other things, being careful, prudent, clever, loving, generous, kind, and brave. It also praises mothers for the good they do. The Bible teaches that adultery and fornication are wrong. People may disagree; they can argue that the Bible is wrong in the ways it praises and blames people and that it is wrong about human nature and human flourishing... But what they should not do is insist that Biblical language and Biblical claims about the human good must be suppressed because they are not in accord with the totalizing discourses of modernity. That’s oppressive.