How can women be Christian?

[JuliaL]

My point for this thread is to point out two quick biblical verses, and ask women ....why Christainity is something you would chose?
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If you still chose to follow the god of the bible, why?

Because persons often do not act in their own best interests.  They act in accordance with their perceptions of their own best interests.

In the case of religious decisions, women adherents' perceptions are colored and shaped by the society they keep.  Religion persists and expands, capturing minds, where and how it can.  It is the overall superorganism, much larger and more influential than any individual it absorbs whose persistence and expansion is optimized by natural selection among variants which include those oppressing women.  The success of this strategy is implicit in the prevalence it owns in current cultures.

A paper explaining and defending David Sloan Wilson's concept of "Religion as Superorganism" can be found here:
http://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/foswiki/p...l-2008.pdf
(pretty neat that a paper on natural selection for religions turned up on a New Zealand engineering and computer science university site.)

According to Wilson, religions are best explained
as ‘superorganisms’ adapted to succeed in competition against others. The
evolutionary history of religion is a battle of these titans

If we consider altruism to be an evolutionary mechanism for collective
benet,  then  another  layer  of  evolutionary  adaptation  emerges:  the  func-
tional properties of groups. These properties are invisible when we limit our
perspective to relations between individuals. To perceive relevant design we
need to look a level up

One must look a level up also in the case of self destructive behavior of religious women.