A question that I ask every now and then on Sunday, I take it as a 'holy' day because of my Christian [Presbyterian] upbringing, more-so now as just a day of rest.
Is there an organised religion that is not fundamentally misogynist?
Analects 7:23: The Master said, Women and little people are hard to handle. If you let them get close, they presume, and if you keep them at a distance, they resent it.
~The master =Confucius.
"In childhood a women must be subject to her father; in youth, to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation."
~Hindu Code of Mann
"Woman is a temple built over a sewer, the gateway to the devil. Woman, you are the devil's doorway. You should always go in mourning and in rags."
"Do you know that each of your women is an Eve? The sentence of God - on this sex of yours -lives in this age; the guilt must necessarily live, too. You are the gate of Hell, you are the temptress of the forbidden tree; you are the first deserter of the divine law."
~Tertullian
Men are superior to women.
~The Koran
Some say Mohammed respected women yet:
"I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women."
~Mohammed
"Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?" The women said, "yes," He said, "This is because of the deficiency of the woman's mind."
~The "Hadith" Vol. 3:826
Mohammed to women: "I have not seen any one more deficient in intelligence and religion than you."
~The "Hadith"Vol. 2:541
"The prophet used to visit all his wives in an hour round, during the day and night and they were eleven in number." I asked Anas, "Had the prophet the strength for it?" Anas replied, "We used to say that the prophet was given the strength of thirty (men).
~The "Hadith" Vol. 1:268
Five and half minutes each?
Gosh so much respect, I'm underwhelmed.
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I'm a non-theist Buddhist; yet when his stepmother Pajapati approached him to become a Buddhist nun he refused:
The Buddha admitted there was no reason a woman could not be enlightened. "Women, Ananda, having gone forth are able to realize the fruit of stream-attainment or the fruit of once-returning or the fruit of non-returning or arahantship," he said.
Ananda had made his point, and the Buddha relented. Pajapati and her 500 followers would be the first Buddhist nuns. But he predicted that allowing women into the Sangha would cause his teachings to survive only half as long - 500 years instead of a 1,000.
Well it proves even Buddha, can be flat out wrong.
Sorry but even the Old Testament fan club is not above the fray:
"How can he be clean that is born of woman?"
~Job a 5:4:
"if a woman be delivered, ... and bear a man-child then she shall be unclean for seven days .... But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks..."
~Apparently Jehovah's own words.
"I find a woman more bitter than death; she is a snare, her heart a net, her arms are chains. No wickedness comes anywhere near the wickedness of a woman. May a sinner's lot be hers."
~Ecclesiastes 7:26-28
Don't kid yourself that the New Testament brigade think any differently
"The pains that,since original sin, a mother has to suffer to give birth to her child only draw tighter the bonds that bind them; she loves it the more, the more pain it has cost her."
~Pope Pius XII
Man is the image of God ... whereas woman reflects the glory of man. For man did not originally spring from woman, but woman was made out of man; and man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for the sake of man.
~ Corinthians 11:7-9
Someone else was thinking of religion today, I don't usually agree with what he has to say, but today's article rang true:
The first-century church was inclusive and democratic, even including a proto-feminist wing and texts. The Gospel of Philip, a Gnostic text from the third century, declares of Mary Magdalene: "She is the one the Savior loved more than all the disciples." Likewise, the Gospel of Mary (from the early second century) suggests that Jesus entrusted Mary Magdalene to instruct the disciples on his religious teachings.
St. Paul refers in Romans 16 to a first-century woman named Junia as prominent among the early apostles, and to a woman named Phoebe who served as a deacon. The Apostle Junia became a Christian before St. Paul did (chauvinist translators have sometimes rendered her name masculine, with no scholarly basis).
http://www.nytimes.com/...
One has to go back to the so called 'Pagan' religions to find a sense of equality, and many would call them barbaric and unenlightened, yet their pantheons demonstrated a certain equality of spirit at least.
Whilst so many followers of the great religions do so much good [or that is their intent], their leaders cling to dogma and misogynist tradition. The subjugation and the demeaning of women is at their very core.
Until they welcome us as equal then the evils of:
1] Paedophilia
2] Honour killings
3] Self immolation.
4] The 'theological' justification that we are somehow second class human beings...
Will continue.
They have all preached the second class nature of being a woman, and it is engrained deeply in our culture. We are still in an age of barbarism, until the Paternalistic religions are reformed, or cease to exist; this will be the case.
Update:
Heh, I know its not your religion, just the others.
The usual.