06 May '13 08:07>
One of the things I rail about in the bible is putting women on a lower plane than men. You all know the bit where in Leviticus it goes, men are worth 50 shekels and a women only 35. The thing about that, besides being sexist, is if you view the rights of women around the world, you find in some countries in Africa, they get genital mutilation so they cannot derive pleasure from sex. Or in China where girl babies are killed AFTER they are born BECAUSE they are girls. You can see how well THAT turned out, now with villages made up of 70% men and REALLY ticked off there are not enough women to go around so now there are these gangs of young men creating hell for China. The point about all that is this is a HUMAN trait.
Countries without religion practice the dehumanization of women. So this behavior does not come from religion. Yet in the Abrahamic religions, it is front and center, spelled out in black and white just what women are worth.
Do you see anywhere in your much vaunted bible any reference to sexism in the animal world? Do you see, say female horses valued any less than males? Perhaps more in this case since the owner of the female horse gets its offspring as well. Not so in the human world.
Your so-called god does not discriminate against horses based on sex. What POSSIBLE rationalization do you have to think this same so-called god would discriminate ONLY against human females.
You see your so-called god pronouncing female chickens as not worth the same as roosters? I would say in this case, at least as far as humans are concerned, female chickens are far more valuable than roosters since they lay eggs.
But why doesn't your so-called god pronounce female chickens as the inferior sex?
And the reason for all that is simple: It was the inclusion of strictly human traits, IE, the cultural bias against female humans ONLY, not female animals, that PROVES this built in bias in the bible was ENTIRELY written by men, just making it APPEAR to be inspired by your so-called alleged god.
A real god would treat humans exactly the same as animals in that regard. Just the same treatment would be given female humans as female chickens.
But HUMAN males culturally exhibit sexism far earlier and far removed geographically than any of the Abrahamic religions so it was there WAY before all those religious books of the bible.
So you answer, why do YOU think you know the mind of god?
My answer: why do YOU think the mind of your god is represented in your bible?
Me, I think pretty conclusively that a god would treat ALL females exactly the same as males, which humans do for animals that they don't do for themselves.
To find that exact same trait in your bible is a HUGE message, a message of 100% human invention, codifying the sexual bias present way before there was a bible, so it now seems to get the approval of your so-called alleged god.
It is no such thing, it is cultural bias built in to the religion made entirely by men so they ensure they will stay on top throughout eternity.
Countries without religion practice the dehumanization of women. So this behavior does not come from religion. Yet in the Abrahamic religions, it is front and center, spelled out in black and white just what women are worth.
Do you see anywhere in your much vaunted bible any reference to sexism in the animal world? Do you see, say female horses valued any less than males? Perhaps more in this case since the owner of the female horse gets its offspring as well. Not so in the human world.
Your so-called god does not discriminate against horses based on sex. What POSSIBLE rationalization do you have to think this same so-called god would discriminate ONLY against human females.
You see your so-called god pronouncing female chickens as not worth the same as roosters? I would say in this case, at least as far as humans are concerned, female chickens are far more valuable than roosters since they lay eggs.
But why doesn't your so-called god pronounce female chickens as the inferior sex?
And the reason for all that is simple: It was the inclusion of strictly human traits, IE, the cultural bias against female humans ONLY, not female animals, that PROVES this built in bias in the bible was ENTIRELY written by men, just making it APPEAR to be inspired by your so-called alleged god.
A real god would treat humans exactly the same as animals in that regard. Just the same treatment would be given female humans as female chickens.
But HUMAN males culturally exhibit sexism far earlier and far removed geographically than any of the Abrahamic religions so it was there WAY before all those religious books of the bible.
So you answer, why do YOU think you know the mind of god?
My answer: why do YOU think the mind of your god is represented in your bible?
Me, I think pretty conclusively that a god would treat ALL females exactly the same as males, which humans do for animals that they don't do for themselves.
To find that exact same trait in your bible is a HUGE message, a message of 100% human invention, codifying the sexual bias present way before there was a bible, so it now seems to get the approval of your so-called alleged god.
It is no such thing, it is cultural bias built in to the religion made entirely by men so they ensure they will stay on top throughout eternity.