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[locusts]

Does God respect women and their dignityle

many religions today still treats women as second class citizens

how do religion respect women in this modern world

[Canary42]

The Ancient Greeks had the right idea - they had gods and goddesses (who often quarrelled too).

As did the ancient Romans.

Then along came the ultimate misogynist Jesus Christ, and the rest is history.

[benhilton]

John 8 : 1 - 11 ,...particularly verses 10 and 11 .....

.....Yep... Jesus Christ the ultimate misogynist.....

[tamborine]

The god I grew up with, gave his son to be birthed by a woman. If he didnt revere & respect women he wouldnt have bothered.

[pixie374]

Childbirth....very generous.

[benhilton]

Birdie you ask me a question after a hyperbole-laden paragraph , I'll comment on the paragraph first .
The RC church does not view women as inferior to men , we have women eucharist ministers , women readers , girls/women altar servers , women parish secretaries , women headteachers of RC secondary schools , women RC M.P.'s and I can think of at least one previous woman RC cabinet minister . There are many women saints and Our Lady is revered .
It's just that the RC church sees men and women as having different roles . The role of Priest etc . has always traditionally been a man's role requiring a vow of chastity .
As for my view , I think that we should stick to our traditions .
I can understand why you might find that discriminatory , but it is certainly not misogynistic .

[beso]

From Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you."

This is the punishment for all women because the first woman disobeyed.

And some claim He is not a misogynist.

[douglas9401]

"The god I grew up with, gave his son to be birthed by a woman. If he didnt revere & respect women he wouldnt have bothered."

And lo, a star appeared in the sky and it was good. Good in as much as it gave Mary and Joseph an idea which, if they could pull it off, would remove stigma and shame from their wee surprise package which was due very soon.
For it was a time of much unenlightenment and the Giro had yet to be created.
And it came to pass that it worked and the rest is not history, it's a very naughty story.

[scorpiojo]

^ BA :)

[keyplus90]

You shuld have gone to Specsavers.

[naomi24]

Keyplus, I do hope that^ coming from you isn't intended for the OP. I seem to recall that when you first arrived here you used the excuse that English isn't your first language on a regular basis.

Give the man a break people - he's not from the UK and he's doing his best. Patience.

[benhilton]

Pure hyperbole . I refer you to my previous answer .

[pixie374]

Please answer him, bh. Would like to know too.

[idiosyncrasy]

Locusts@ Are women treated equally? Yes and no. Depends on the man.

Many men feel that they have the right to treat women as 2nd class citizens yet nowhere in the Bible does God say that women are to be treated a slaves! It is man himself that has decided women are not their equal.

For example: Although women cultivate more than half the world’s crops, in many countries they have no legal right to own property or inherit land.
Yet the bible tells us that a woman can own her own property - read Proverbs 31 v 10 onwards.

Jesus always treated women with respect.

Under the Mosaic Law, women enjoyed an honorable status, and their rights were respected. However, from the fourth century B.C.E. on, Judaism started to be influenced by Greek culture, which regarded women as inferior

[idiosyncrasy]

Genesis 1:27 from the very beginning, humans—both male and female—were created with the ability to reflect God’s qualities. Although Adam and Eve had their own unique emotional and physical makeup, they both received the same commission and enjoyed the same rights before their Maker.—Genesis 1:28-31.

Genesis 2 v 18 reads " And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make a helper comparable to him". Does the word “comparable imply that the woman was inferior to the man? No, because this Hebrew word can also be rendered “counterpart” or “a help corresponding to” the man.

To illustrate this, take a surgeon - he has an anesthetist during the surgery, Can one manage without the other? Though the surgeon performs the actual operation he is no more important than the anesthetist. In a similar way God created the man and the woman to co-operate closely, not to be in competition .