(May 9, 2011 at 4:02 pm)Chuck Wrote: Gets to the heart of the incompatibility between truth and faith, doesn't it?While I agree with this, the driving force in this issue was power and control. What if their oppressed women saw that they could actually be treated as equals if they just put their foot down? Especially after the unrest in Lybia and Egypt where the common folk learned they didn't have to put up with shady governements if they stood up. They don't want women getting the same idea.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell