Comments on: Is Christianity to blame for Bible-inspired sexism?

By: Observer

Observer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:54:41 +0000

It is in my firmness belief that every person must be given their rights and those rights be exercise. Religions that discriminate and impose hierarchal roles really slow down societal progress. It is a fact that human nature is naturally selfish. If you let one group whether it be religious, certain governmental parties or one gender to rule above the other it would certainly turn to corruption, oppression and personal gain. If power goes uncheck it leads to abuse even though it is claimed that hierarchy is needed for order and protection. Most of the time, the hierarchy and order is use to maintain power by one group to keep the other group subordinate and powerless. There needs to be a balance of power in everything- family, society and religious belief. History attest that absolute power corrupts absolutely, whether it be monarchy, dictatorship, theocracy that subordinates women to men, caste systems and gender or racial suprimacy. Even today, you can see its results in Third world countries and poverty stricken places in the world. Most third world have little or no women’s rights at all. Their economy is slower because there’s not much money circulating around, they have a higher domestic violence rate (sometimes culturally acceptible), low education cause families can’t afford, human trafficking and corruption within business and governemntal functions, just to name a few. I think that what keeps a nation prosperous is when justice is upheld, reduce crimes, get people educated, balance of power and maintain a balance between capitalism and environmental responsibilities.

By: Florence

Florence — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:02:28 +0000

women are equall to men…. infact men need women, Adam needed eve cause he was too incompentant she may have ‘decieved’ him with the friut by she never lied … adam eat it with no questions … like a puppy being told to fetch.

By: bipolar2

bipolar2 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:17:22 +0000

** The real issue — it’s social control **

Xian males, like their muslim brethren and jewish father, shudder at a technological world in which mental agility has replaced physical strength as a core measure of economic utility. This reordering of values strips away a core faith-based lie: god-ordained male supremacy.

Unresolved to this day is a decades long struggle over gender equality — equal productive and reproductive rights. Who does The House and Senate back? The relevant group, women themselves, tens of millions of them?

Or white male second-hand-god salesmen? Spewing pro-natalist social Darwinism tarted up as “family values”. Fundies are obvious offenders, but RCs run a close second.

Women’s aspirations, self realization, reproductive self-determination must be crushed by direct force. Xian domestic terrorism, like muslim domestic terrorism, humiliates, intimidates, and batters women back to submission.

Protected by complicit federal and state officials, cells of xian thugs have been targeting women and their humane values for decades. Irrationality drives scientific knowledge about sex from America’s schools just as it drives medical research abroad.

Xian political ideologues must eventually embrace state totalitarianism. Their “truths” can never win popular support. An open society will repudiate a nihilism composed of literalist lies, morally repugnant beliefs, and puritanical rules.

bipolar2
2008c.