Religious books were written by men who were opposed to the rights of women?
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Not all Muslims hold to the traditional views...many of the more educated, enlightened Muslim people live openly and free from that way of thinking
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Well, remember that those religions were founded by men who completely objectified women, and viewed them as little more than cattle.  I imagine a lot of these men measured their self-worth in proportion to the number of wives they had, etc.  So they were very "uptight" about the possibility of their wives being stolen by another man, etc.  So they put rules in place about killing an adulterer, etc.\n\nAnd to this day, there's a big difference between "attractive" and "religious".  Religion attempts to put rules on attraction, wherein people value their significant other because they're supposed to, not because they truly WANT to.  This is why so many of them hate to see a woman dressed in a sexy outfit.  They know it creates lust in a man, and makes his thoughts stray.  (Unfortunately for them, they created this whole lust thing by forcing us all into modest clothing, and denying knowledge of what our bodies look like.  How much lust would there be over a naked woman, if all women were naked?  None...)\n\nPersonally, I think that's why divorce rates are so high these days.  People are putting less stock in these old rules, (as they are with all the rules in the bible, for example).  They still try to keep the trappings of religion (such as a church-ordained marriage), but they violate its laws.\n\nThis is creating a lot of confusion in people.  But it's a necessary phase, as we are finally beginning to evolve out of the primitive mentality that is religion...
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Feminism is an ideology that seems logical, but proves contrary when truly analyzed. Feminism, by implied definition, is "the ensuring of complete equality of men and women". However, to both followers of Christ, and respecters of true science, this ideology is ilogical and irrational.\n\nTo Christians, feminism is nothing more sophisticated than rebellion against Christ's ordinances for man and woman. Christ ordained Adam, and all men, to stand in HIS stead as shepherd, provider, protector, father, and husband. Christ also ordaind Eve, and all women, to stand in the stead of HIS Church as nourisher, bearer of fruit, nurterer, bride, and mother. Feminists display arrogance when attempting to overcome the God ordained offices of man and woman.\n\nTo respecters of science, feminism is a contradiction of nature itself. By nature, a man's body is built for manual labour. The bone structure, muscle, speed, and endourance of man is perfectly designed and balanced for manual labour. As well, a woman's body is built for child bearing and nourishment. Again, the bone structure, lower center of balance, excess body fat, menstral cycle, and mamory glands of women affirm that a woman's body is designed for child bearing and nourishing. Thus, nature itselft enforces certain duties and responsibilities of men and women. Man cannot bare the children, while the woman labours. Man cannot be impregnated while the woman provides. Nature demands the woman bare children and the man labour. Nature demands the woman be impregnated and the man provide.\n\nTo Christians, a society that strives against God, (in any manner, including sexual duties) is only mocking and provoking HIM. Such a society should not expect Christ to hear their prayers in time of need.\n\nTo believers in science, a society that strives against nature is destined for confusion, chaos, and eventual destruction. A society that believes it can conquer nature by denying its truths is just as foolish as a nation that believes it can withstand fire, water, and wind by ignoring their heat, overwelmingness, and strength, respectively.\n\nAll being said, the ideology of "ensuring equality amongst men and women" by denying their obvious differences is destructive, delusional, and foolish. Much more wisely, men ought to embrace ther GOD given and nature enforced masculine bodies and duties, and women embrace their GOD given and nature enforced feminine bodies and duties. Nonetheless, understanding that the man is incomplete without the woman, as well the woman is in need of the man. Therefore, appreciating and complimenting one another without denying the natures and uniqueness of one another.
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Heck yes, anyone who says the opposite is living a fantasy (no names mentioned).  Both old and new testament make a point of putting women squarely in 'their places', whether this has any positive benefit on social harmony is debatable, and in the modern arena is likely to promote social disharmony.\n\nOne more thing I have noticed that some of the people here are mistaking a basic respect (or even chivalrous attitude) towards women as proving that they (and the bibles teachings) are not sexist.  The fact that you are treating them different because of their sex is a form of sexism.  A man who expects his wife to cook his dinner, iron his clothes and stay at home while he is the sole bread winner for the family, can still have respect for women in other areas such as never raising a hand to them, opening doors and all the other things we are taught in this society about how to respect women, but the basic truth is that a lot (not all) men expect women to fit into certain niches in society and this attitude is reinforced by the sexist bible quotes that 2 members of the christian community above quoted.... Shame on you!!!
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And women shall have rights similar to the rights against them, according to what is equitable; but man have a degree (of advantage as in some cases of inheritance) over them \n\n(Qur’an 2:228)\n\nMuslim religion is not considered bad, its only media reports that spreads such wrong impressions. Its totally false based on the reports of people embrassing Islam. The latest of them is women media reported from UK, captured by Talibaan just before US attacked AFGHANISTAN, spent few weeks in their custody, released and willingly accepted Islam Yuvon Yardly. If muslims are bad and Islam is bad, why she left her Christianity and accepted Islam ?\nsecond and third questions are on women in Islam - the following article gives you the position of women Islam.\nThe Status of Woman in Islam\n\nBy Hammuda Abdul-Ati, PH.D. from "Islam in focus"\n\nThe status of woman in Islam constitutes no problem. The attitude of the Qur'an and the early Muslims bear witness to the fact that woman is, at least, as vital to life as man himself, and that she is not inferior to him nor is she one of the lower species. Had it not been for the impact of foreign cultures and alien influences, this question would have never arisen among the Muslims. The status of woman was taken for granted to be equal to that of man. It was a matter of course, a matter of fact, and no one, then, considered it as a problem at all.\n\nIn order to understand what Islam has established for woman, there is no need to deplore her plight in the pre-Islamic era or in the modern would of today. Islam has given woman rights and privileges, which she has never enjoyed under other religious or constitutional systems. This can be understood when the matter is studied as a whole in a comparative manner, rather than partially. The rights and responsibilities of a woman are equal to those of a man but they are not necessarily identical with them. Equality and sameness are two quite different things. This difference is understandable because man and woman are not identical but they are created equals. With this distinction in mind, There is no problem. It is almost impossible to find even two identical men or women.\n\nThis distinction between equality and sameness is of paramount importance. Equality is desirable, just, fair; but sameness is not. People are not created identical but they are created equals. With this distinction in mind, there is no room to imagine that woman is inferior to man. There is no ground to assume that she is less important than he just because her rights are not identically the same as his. Had her status been identical with his, she would have been simply a duplicate of him, which she is not. The fact that Islam gives her equal rights - but not identical - shows that it takes her into due consideration, acknowledges her, and recognizes her independent personality.\n\nIt is not the tone of Islam that brands woman as the product of the devil or the seed of evil. Nor does the Qur'an place man as the dominant lord of woman who has no choice but to surrender to his dominance. Nor was it Islam that introduced the question of whether or not woman has any soul in her. Never in the history of Islam has any Muslim doubted the human status of woman or her possession of soul and other fine spiritual qualities. Unlike other popular beliefs, Islam does not blame Eve alone for the First Sin. The Qur'an makes it very clear that both Adam and Eve were tempted; that they both sinned; that God's pardon was granted to both after their repentance; and that God addressed them jointly. (2:35-36); 7:19, 27; 20:117-123). In fact the Qur'an gives the impression that Adam was more to blame for that First Sin from which emerged prejudice against woman and suspicion of her deeds. But Islam does not justify such prejudice or suspicion because both Adam and Eve were equally in error, and if we are to blame Eve we should blame Adam as much or even more. \n\nThe sta
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You can try bartleby.com\n\nFreedom of choice for women, at the expense of the caring, warmth, and sensitivity to others so often associated with them, may be empty. In the thrust to redefine male and female roles, women must not become men; nor can men be permitted the continual dehumanization of their roles.\nKathleen Weibel\n\nThere are many others there if you just look under the word "caring".  Good Luck.
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He ought to try reading Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul  by John Eldredge.\n\nFrom the review:\nIf Christian men are going to change from a pitiful, wimpy bunch of "really nice guys" to men who are made in the image of God, they must reexamine their preconceptions about who God is and recover their true "wild" hearts, writes bestselling author John Eldredge in Wild at Heart: Discovering a Life of Passion, Freedom, and Adventure. Eldredge throws down the gauntlet--men are bored; they fear risk, they refuse to pay attention to their deepest desires. He challenges Christian men to return to authentic masculinity without resorting to a "macho man" mentality. Men often seek validation in venues such as work, or in the conquest of women, Eldredge observes. He urges men to take time out and come to grips with the "secret longings" of their hearts. Although the book succeeds best in its slant toward a male audience, it also strives to help women understand the implications of authentic masculinity in their relationships with men. Eldredge frames the book around his outdoor experiences and appealing anecdotes about his family, sprinkling the text with touches of humor and overlying everything with heartfelt passion.
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To quote Clarence Darrow:\n\n"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."
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Because the bible was written by people who bought and sold women as property.
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It is obvious that you have a misunderstanding of the bible.  I am a bible study teacher and my bible says to honor and love my wife.  \nI don't know what you mean by "against women".  The bible is against sin, not gender.  \nCan you point out a specific example as to where it is against women?\n\nI would say that the world today is against women. God created women and loves them just as much as He loves men.\nThe world teaches to treat women like sex objects, teaches men to use women for entertainment, teaches men to lust after women and treat them like toys.  It teaches men to just get laid and not give women the honor of marriage.  \n\nThe bible is against all of those things.  Look at someone like Madonna.  She treats herself like a whore and teaches young women to do the same by her bad example.  Yet she is honored by the world and the bible is condemned.  I find that a bit hypocritical for those who accuse the bible of being male chauvinistic and applaud these famous whores.\n\nI'm sorry, but the bible really teaches men to honor, respect and love women.  \n\nPlease give me an example that you are referring to and I will explain the verse.\n\nAdam and Eve:\nEve did tempt Adam and ate the fruit (not apple) first and then gave Adam to eat.  But God gave the harsher punishment to Adam because he was responsible.  So how is that against women?\n\nadded:\nI think you're confusing bible law with the historical portion of it.  The bible is not just a guide to life, the Word of God and God's law for us.  It is also a history book.  The things you are describing are historical accounts that happend and the bible recorded it.  It doesn't mean that we should behave that way.  When the prostitue was about to be stoned, Jesus stopped them because their judgment was not correct.  He was preventing them from being unjust.\nThere is much recorded in the bible to explain how we shouldn't be as well as how we should.  \nThe Song of Solomon is an entire book dedicated to honoring your wife.  \nEve messed up.  Do you feel that women shouldn't be punished because they're women?  That's a little one sided.  And whether you belive it happened or not, it doesn't matter.  It happened that way.  The author was there to record the account so I think he knows better than us whether the story happened that way or not.\nJesus died for women as well as men.  There is no prejudice here.\nI think you are upset because God gave men the role of authority over women.  Sorry if you feel that way, but that's the way it is.  It doesn't mean that men are better or smarter.  It just means that men have more responsibility in the house of God.\nIf you have a problem with that, you can blame Eve.  Women were not put into a position of submission until after the fall of man.  Before that, it was not so.\nAnd I'm sorry if you think that Eve has the greater punishment, but you're wrong.  Man's punishment is to bear the responsibility for everything.  Have you ever noticed that women are not held accountable for their actions nearly as much as men are?\nAnd as far as pregnancy is concerned, I have not met one woman who would give up that blessing.  They have a connection with their child that men will never understand which much more than makes up for their pain.\nPersonally, if I could get away with half the things that women do, I'd be a very happy person.\n\nYou are just looking for an excuse to not believe in God.  You have chosen the chauvinistic fallacy excuse.  That's one of many you could have went with.  \nAll I can say to you is that you are brainwashed into believing that lie.  You should try to study the Word instead of attacking it.  You get much more out of it that way.\n\nJesus loves you,\nI think people do that because they're angry at God.  They are hurting and want to be healed.  They attack God and His followers because they think that it is us who hurt them.  They ha
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Women should not be preachers.  The men should lead the congregation, the bible says men shall lead the family.  They should be leading the church family as well.
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Who else is a book going to be written by?\n\nMaybe we should only read women's books.
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Boycott Dominoes if you care anything whatsoever of women's right to choose.  The Founders a friggin religious zealot.  These wackjobs still believe in simple answers to complex questions.  AND...the answers were formulated anywhere from 1500-3500 years ago depending on the religion.  Not sayin there aint a god....there might be.....but don't let these nutjobs fool ya!!! They don't know either.  they think they do, but they simply can't know.  to them that's faith.  Gimme a fn break.
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You have it backwards, or at least the author of the book does.\n\nGod created man, then some men decided to close their eyes and try to rewrite history.
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I would think they are Hindu...\n\nThe male dominated Hindu society would not allow the woman to decide the "religion" or the "up-bringing" of the offsprings.  Hinduism is more "Macho" than Christianity.  Christ's message is on the "female" or compassion/nurturing side of the Male personality and most of his early followers were women.  The ones who stood with him at the cross were the "holy women" and John, the Mystic.  Paul was not as "enlightened" and the later Roman Catholic Church" and the "male dominated" fundamentalist movements chose Paul's writings as the "organizational" structure.  It is Paul (a murderer) who places women at a disavantage in the Christian Churches.  John is the one that I like and now, Thomas and Mary Magdalen, finally...read their "Gospels" for an enlightment.  \n\nHinduism, with its "business of religious" paradigm,  is in a constant expansion mode and with India, because  of their "huge" population it becomes a "political" necessity.   Religion and the many feasts are used by the government and Chamber of Commerce "Diaspora" philosophy of marketing the culture through the religion.  Multi nationalist capitalists and the demons of  "Greed" and "lust for power" (called Mammon) that is "capitalism" does the same with Western  (evangelical) Chrisitanity  in other countries.  Now we have other Cultures (Hindu and Islamic)  with a religious spearhead,  expanding into our (stolen) territory in North America at least,  much as the Islamic empires of the Mediteranean are expanding into Europe, even as far as Russia,  with the Muslim religion spearhead, trying to "change the laws" under the "guise" of "freedom of Relgion".\nIn Canada, there is a Muslim "cabale" attempting to put Shariah law in Ontario and whole "communities" are being built around a Mosque, for "Muslims only".  This Ghetto-isation is what will eventually explode into societal divisions, 'civil strife" and gang and sectarian violence.  We have seen it often enough to know that we must "oppose" such theocratic societies to "infiltrate" our democracies and create "islands" of theocracies and autocratic and even totalitarian and "racists" enclaves in our towns and communities.  Democracy feeds on information.  Theocracies feed on MYTH.\n\nThe Russians are seeing the same phenomenon in their satellite (soviet)  states and in Mother Russia itself where the "Hare Krishnas...or ISKON, the fundamental wing of Hinduism) is building a temple in downtown Moscow with the assistance of Henry Fords grandson.  Religion is used by the "powers" of the demons of "MONEY" and "GREED",  as a spearhead to enter other countries.  Freedom of Religion is the Opiate ("try it for a few months and see", is their "come-on".) that will dull the mind of the population and make them "controllable" through the mechanism of "fear and temptation and guilt".  The priests are the "drug dealers" and the "pimps", or in religious terms, the "judas goats".\n\nCyril Borg, the Cyborg
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Rom 1:26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: \n\n\n Rom 1:27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. \n\n\n Rom 1:28  And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; \n\n\n Rom 1:29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, \n\n\n Rom 1:30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, \n\n\n Rom 1:31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: \n\n\n Rom 1:32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them
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Pope Benedict XVI.\nI'd like to raise the issues of women's rol inside the church and celibacy.