Women are treated like dirt in every culture that does not take its basic view of mankind from Christianity, which holds, as do the Jews, that all men are created in the image and likeness of God.
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"If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silvers, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days." (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
"Women are treated like dirt in every culture that does not take its basic view of mankind from Christianity , which holds, as do the Jews, that all men are created in the image and likeness of God. "
...so therefore - as proven by the likes of Jimmy Swaggart, Newt Gingrich, and Ted Faggard, - God is an adulterous, multiple divorcee, closeted homosexual, despite being married , amirite?!
I'm afraid that all you right-wing findies - No Exceptions - no longer have the right to so much as have an 'opinion' on marriage in perpetuity. Seeing as the very basis of your 'morality', whom right-wing fundie men (Swaggart, Gingrich, Faggard et al, to name but a few) are made in the image of a Zeus-like player who knocked up that child bride Mary, no less.
Proved that we Atheists are more than infinitely superior to your 'God (and therefore you fundies) in every conceivable way, much?
Christianity taking credit for the progress of society even though it not only had nothing to do with it but actively stood in the way #9,475,854,358. Seriously, I'm willing to bet my house that in 30 years or so Christianity will be trying to take the credit for gay rights.
Meanwhile, in Quote# 95726 above, marital rape is a myth, wives agree to become their husbands' slaves the second they say "I do", and that struggling single mom should be talked at about how she is a sinner and going to hell by a good Christian charity instead of seeking evil Marxist welfare.
Oh you, fundies. Oh you .
Last night 60 Minutes had a segment on how the Vatican has appointed a special inquisitor to bring American nuns back into line, 'cause they're spending too much time doing stuff for the disadvantaged, instead of bad-mouthing parts of society the Catholic church disagrees with.
@ KittyKaboom : You wrote:
"You mean the same christianity that tells women we're not even fit to teach our own children?"
... which is odd, considering that "school teacher" has traditionally been seen as a woman's profession.
But clearly, if women were allowed to teach their sons, their sons would soon be playing with Barbie dolls instead of G.I. Joes, and it's only a small step from there to being infected with Teh Ghey.
"And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do." (Exod. 21:7)
Yeah, that's not treating women as dirt [/sarcasm]
1. Jews do not take their basic view of mankind from Christianity.
2. Sikhs and Bektashi Muslims view women as being equal to men.
3. You may have missed the CNN film The Bride was 7 about child marriage and FGM in a Christian province of Ethiopia, a country which has been Christian for about 1,700 years longer than the US has been in existence.
It's not as if any Christian would mistreat women:
Columbus wrote to a friend in 1500: "A hundred castellanoes (a Spanish coin) are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand."
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1011-27.htm
Christian Spain's institutionalised child rape.
Ah, Wright reveals himself as a native of Bizarroworld!
While Jesus may have treated women with the utmost honor & respect, his alleged followers, not so much.
@mattiedef
Actually, I'm pretty sure pre-Meiji Japanese women had it pretty bad, too. I think I read that in the Heian Era, a nobleman could legally rape any woman who wasn't married to another nobleman -- infact, it was basically considered a normal thing, and it was considered improper for a woman to enjoy sex, or even really consent to it (it was also considered improper to fight back). Also, if the woman was married, then she could be killed for the "crime" of being raped. Also women had no choice in who they married, and could not initiate divorce. And while they could technically join armies and fight, they were always basically considered at least one rank lower than any men of the same rank.
Historical Japan was very patriarchal, AFAIK. Maybe not quite as much as, say, China or -- God forbid -- Korea (or at least, not in quite the same way), but it was still very patriarchal. I blame Confucianism, personally.
"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law."
- I Corinthians 14:34 (KJV)
"But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."
- I Timothy 2:12
Its hard to tell if John has never read the bible, or if he is assuming that his fans have never read it. Any guesses?
Women are treated like dirt in every culture that takes its basic view of mankind from Christianity.
That's what reality shows us.
Your Bible spends a lot of time on how women are useless, stupid, vindictive and wanton. Their forever labeled as the problem and a yoke on men in the Bible. Some are, to be fair, but in general even their faults are often justifiable, in this and moreso that mansworld.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a sexist bastard at a basic battle of the sexes level BUT the Bibles a woman haters club beyond reason.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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