Women According to Scripture
Let me expound for a few moments on the inherent primitiveness and unethical ideology that is the cult of christianity, which is the alleged ‘child’ of Judaism and by association its further bastard offspring called islam. Specifically, I wish to delve into their misogynistic views regarding half of the human race, women. While there do exist many more progressive minded christians, Jews and muslims who view women far differently than the chattel that their alleged ‘holy books’ declare them to essentially be and treat them more like equals these people have made the conscious decision to set aside the primitive and rather barbaric declarations supposedly set forth by their ‘god’. Conversely there exists a very large segment of those communities, particularly within islam, some sub-sects of Judaism and a sector of christianity such as the more fundamentalist mormons, who adhere to the strictest reading of those ridiculous ancient texts. Let me begin with the cult of christianity as it is the most relevant to my own homeland. Paul’s advice about whether women are allowed to teach men in church shows that most christians are simply not following scripture except where they agree with it for example when they ignore 1 Timothy 2:12 [KJV] which says “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent” since some of the more popular evangelicals are in fact women that does seems to be a bit problematic for christians as a whole were they to actually be following ‘the teachings of christ’ as they so often try to claim. Another prime example is that it is very unlikely that many such zealous believers are following scripture as in Ephesians 5:22-23 [KJV] that states, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.” A further example of this second-class status bordering on that of animate, speaking chattel is found in Deuteronomy 24:1-4 [KJV] where is says, “When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.” What a pathetic example of misogyny that is where if a woman does not ‘please’ her husband he can just divorce her without her knowledge and toss her out on the street. I seriously doubt that many women in the faith either have read that passage or if they have, they accept it without question other than through self-delusion. This is the twenty-first century and not the twelfth in case that fact escaped their notice and while they and their spouse might not be in favor of equal rights for woman or be proponents of feminism, scary ideas there that men might need to be equals to them, but I also doubt that they would allow the male of the species to follow scripture without complaint save in such primitive and insular sub-sects as certain polygamous Mormon sects. Fundamentalists also rail against the divorce rate calling it a ‘sign of immorality’ but scripture is sadly deficient on prohibiting the institution and makes a woman hardly more than a chattel if not a slave to a man. For example, Romans 7:2-3 [KJV] says that, “For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband. So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.” Further evidence that these ‘moral mouthpieces’ are howling at the moon merely to make a noise is the demonstrable fact that the divorce rate among the ‘bible thumping moral majority’ is just as high if not higher than the rest of society and that the secular or ‘atheist’ fraction of society is not suffering from a multiple of that rate as the fundamentalists would have us believe to bolster their daily dose of religious fraud. The very fact that self-declared christians constitute the majority of the US population, although that percentage is steadily shrinking, does demonstrate that regardless of the rate of divorce the majority of divorces occur among ‘christians’. Do the math, Bob, do the math! This leaves a woman chained to a corpse according to scripture and if she remarries following his death, so much for the christian vow of ‘til death do we part’, she becomes an adulteress subject to a penalty of death as prescribed in Leviticus 20:10 [KJV] which states, “And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.” Scripture paints women as little more than slaves and breeding vessels for men with no voice, no rights and no place outside the shadow of their fathers and husbands. I do not think that any women other than those raised where no other idea was ever allowed to be heard by them would swallow such barbaric and primitive ideological nonsense. Doubt this idea then read those passages of scripture to your mother, your sister, your girlfriend or wife and judge their response for yourself. Better still aside from the few offhand comments regarding such ideas as ‘love thy wife’ presented in scripture that clearly states that a woman might be emotionally seen as the ‘equal’ of the man, that they must be treated with some semblance of respect and not beaten or otherwise abused as other passages do say clearly there is extremely little that contradicts the glaring misogyny of scripture. Yet here again christians who to one degree or another accept the modern ‘relative equality’ of women will in one breathe declare the bible to be the ‘inerrant word of god’ then with the next dismiss a host of scripture because it does not fit to their current views. The decades long campaign to control a woman’s reproductive choice is nothing less than a pandering to both biblical misogyny as well as that empowered women who are able to make their own choices in life without interference from men frightens many men and most of christian men. The backlash seen by Republicans who have ‘sold their souls’ to christian extremists to remain in power from tens of millions of outraged women following the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the ideologically and financially corrupt Supreme Court has both scared the daylights out of those pandering politicians as well as demonstrating that the majority of women in the US will not quietly go back into the ‘dark ages’. Allow me to put forth a little more ‘holy scripture’ to further expose the blatant misogyny and primitive mindset that is the foundation of the cult of christianity. Make no mistake that the currently popular apologetic used by so many desperate christians frighten of the reality as to what their ideological foundation has to say regarding moral and ethical issues which is ‘well that was the old testament and we’re under a new covenant now’ as if they could simply toss out the very basis of their mythology is entirely dishonest and exposes their hypocrisy. Leviticus 12:1-5 [KJV] says “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.” One of the most repugnant and telling examples of the immorality of scripture is to be found in Exodus 21:7-11 [KJV] which relates to a man selling his own flesh and blood, his daughter, as if she were a piece of livestock where is says “And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.”How delusional must one be to swallow such ancient, barbaric and primitive ideas in order to cling to a mythology that for all I can see has no actual redeeming characteristics. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 [KJV] “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. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” 1 Timothy 2:10-11 [KJV] “But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.” Misogyny as in St Paul's advice 1 Timothy 2:12 [KJV] "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, she must be silent.” Ephesians 5:22-25 [KJV] “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;” Colossians 3:18 [KJV] “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.” Titus 2:4-5 [KJV] “That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to” 1 Peter 3:1-5 [KJV] “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:” Make no mistake that even though there are many liberal minded, progressive christians who will openly disavow these abhorrent ideas plucked from a time thousands of years in the past where violent subjugation was the norm this is still part and parcel of the foundation of the cult of christianity as well as a mainstay of the sole unifying doctrine since they abandoned segregation in the 1970s....
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