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A review by kevin_shepherd
Women V. Religion: The Case Against Faith--And for Freedom by
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“The impulse of men to own women would be there whether they believed in god or not. It’s just that it might be a bit harder to persuade female babies that they should be owned by men, if they were not told that god wants it to be true. ...getting rid of the idea of the supernatural is one step - only one, but a very important one, perhaps the first one, perhaps the biggest one - on the road to emancipation.” ~Christopher Hitchens
No words of mine could elevate this book more than those written herein by the women who speak out against religious subjugation, or by the words of men (including those written in the Bible) that seek to sustain it:
“Supernatural shackles on our minds have replaced iron shackles around our ankles, and through religious misogynistic indoctrination, women are taught to enslave themselves for men’s benefit. The subjugation of women and children is not an unfortunate side effect of religion - it is religion’s purpose.” ~Lauri Weissman
• for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake. 1 Corinthians 11:9
• How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman? Job 25:4
• For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. 1 Corinthians 11:7
• Do not give your strength to women, Or your ways to that which destroys kings. Proverbs 31:3
“Digging into the Bible searching for truth was like putting my fingers deep into a sandcastle. It fell apart.” ~Alexis Record
“Even if women wear themselves out or die from childbearing - no harm done. Let them die from bearing. This is the purpose for which they exist.” ~Martin Luther
• Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 1 Corinthians 14:34
“The visceral disgust toward women that oozes out of so many Bible texts has echoed down through history in the attitudes and words of Christian leaders - from Catholic Fathers, to Protestant Reformers, to modern leaders of sects like Mormonism and Evangelicalism ...for the church to justify subjugation of women - to make chattel culture righteous - women had to be defined as inferior: morally weak, spiritually debased, physically defective, promiscuous, and stupid.” ~Valerie Tarico, PhD
“Those who conform to all the privileges and niceties of culture invariably reject those who do not. In a strange sort of way, the privilege of rejection heightens the senses of those outside the circle’s influence. We have time to consider things more deeply. We see better. And once we’ve removed our culturally attuned lenses, what we see when looking at the church is a hierarchical, self-preserving, bigoted, chauvinistic institution dulled by successive generations of leaders whose circumcised intellect prevented them from exploring beyond their own reiterated dogma and canonical laws.* Once you see it, those scales, you know... they don’t just fall; they crash.” ~Gretta Vosper (*referencing Friedrich Nietzsche)
No words of mine could elevate this book more than those written herein by the women who speak out against religious subjugation, or by the words of men (including those written in the Bible) that seek to sustain it:
“Supernatural shackles on our minds have replaced iron shackles around our ankles, and through religious misogynistic indoctrination, women are taught to enslave themselves for men’s benefit. The subjugation of women and children is not an unfortunate side effect of religion - it is religion’s purpose.” ~Lauri Weissman
• for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake. 1 Corinthians 11:9
• How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman? Job 25:4
• For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. 1 Corinthians 11:7
• Do not give your strength to women, Or your ways to that which destroys kings. Proverbs 31:3
“Digging into the Bible searching for truth was like putting my fingers deep into a sandcastle. It fell apart.” ~Alexis Record
“Even if women wear themselves out or die from childbearing - no harm done. Let them die from bearing. This is the purpose for which they exist.” ~Martin Luther
• Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 1 Corinthians 14:34
“The visceral disgust toward women that oozes out of so many Bible texts has echoed down through history in the attitudes and words of Christian leaders - from Catholic Fathers, to Protestant Reformers, to modern leaders of sects like Mormonism and Evangelicalism ...for the church to justify subjugation of women - to make chattel culture righteous - women had to be defined as inferior: morally weak, spiritually debased, physically defective, promiscuous, and stupid.” ~Valerie Tarico, PhD
“Those who conform to all the privileges and niceties of culture invariably reject those who do not. In a strange sort of way, the privilege of rejection heightens the senses of those outside the circle’s influence. We have time to consider things more deeply. We see better. And once we’ve removed our culturally attuned lenses, what we see when looking at the church is a hierarchical, self-preserving, bigoted, chauvinistic institution dulled by successive generations of leaders whose circumcised intellect prevented them from exploring beyond their own reiterated dogma and canonical laws.* Once you see it, those scales, you know... they don’t just fall; they crash.” ~Gretta Vosper (*referencing Friedrich Nietzsche)