Christian Bride gives her Pastor father certificate of purity on her wedding day

[drfuzzy]

A Christian bride gave her father, who happens to be a pastor, a certificate of purity on her wedding day.

Signed by a doctor


http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...-a-virgin/

Does anyone else find this more than a little creepy?

What is it with the religious obsession with virginity - especially female virginity?

Christianity has always been completely patriarchal and anti-women.  Again and again the authors of the Bible remind us that although a woman can be useful when she keeps her mouth shut, she is a sub-set of human and only useful as a baby factory or an amusement.  Kidnap them, rape them, kill them - the Bible makes it clear that they are expendable and this notion of purity and chastity directly reflects the general consensus of women being considered livestock when it comes to breeding.  

You can't let your prize horse out of the pen to risk damage to it.  I'll say it again, women were livestock to these goat herders and to this day "purity" is how the religious continue to devalue women.  It reduces the female gender to one thing.  It belittles the education of young women.  It tells your daughter that she matters only because she has an "un-used" vagina and someone will now be willing to mate with her.  It's disgusting.  Christianity is disgusting, and to endorse this sort of "purity" rhetoric makes you a gullible primitive.

Sex is the most natural thing on the planet, and a confident powerful single woman is sexy as hell.  It's a shame that so many females are still falling prey to the lies that are told by men who have no understanding of that ancient book that poisons their own minds.

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Remember:
 “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days."

 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride price for virgins."

Daughters were property, and virginity was their only real value.  Women were bought and sold like livestock, and treated like livestock.  The Father had to be able to guarantee that the new husband that his new slave was completely untouched, and he would have exclusive access until she died.  (Probably in childbirth, before her 40th birthday.  If not that, from frequent beatings.)   Purity balls are saying that she is STILL property, of her father, then her husband, and her only value is her virginity.