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A interesting question
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RE: A interesting question
(June 15, 2017 at 11:09 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: God of monotheism is given the gender of male due to patriarchal tendencies within the culture.

If you look at polytheistic cultures, both men and women were respected equally within the culture.

Only the monotheistic culture placed sole importance on the male while making the woman irrelevant.

I hate the word "culture". I agree the word exists, but it does not change our species going back far enough make all 7 billion of us related, and we also existed long before any written religions or set cities.

The truth is in all of antiquity our species had no concept that it took both female and male genes. Males back then, even in polytheism falsely thought only their sperm was making the  new life and the women was just a carrier. Patriarchal societies existed even in Hinduism and Buddhism. And while polytheism of Hinduism, and say the Greeks and Roman deities, goddesses exist, just like the Ancient Egyptians the top figure is depicted as male.

Even today there is no female Pope or female Dali Lama. 

Sexism exists in all nations to greater or lesser degrees worldwide. Every one of the world's major religions worldwide stems from a very patriarchal male dominated antiquity. Even today most of the world's political/religious leaders are male. 

Name me one polytheistic religion where a women is equal? I have never found one. I have found that polytheism has female deities, but I cannot name one that has a top creator God that is female. Nor are the amount of female deities in polytheism equal to the higher volume of male deities. Females in polytheism are still represented as a minority in terms of numbers. 

I would not confuse mythological relationships depicted in polytheism as being the same as an equal number of male figures and female figures in totality as being a 50/50 split. All you are arguing is interactions in individual stories, but that does not address equal volume in representation in that mythology.
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A interesting question - by dyresand - June 15, 2017 at 11:07 pm
RE: A interesting question - by Silver - June 15, 2017 at 11:09 pm
RE: A interesting question - by Brian37 - June 16, 2017 at 8:27 am
RE: A interesting question - by ignoramus - June 16, 2017 at 3:12 am
RE: A interesting question - by Jesster - June 16, 2017 at 3:51 am
RE: A interesting question - by ignoramus - June 16, 2017 at 4:20 am
RE: A interesting question - by Jesster - June 16, 2017 at 5:03 am
RE: A interesting question - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - June 16, 2017 at 5:31 am
RE: A interesting question - by Joods - June 16, 2017 at 5:36 am
RE: A interesting question - by The Grand Nudger - June 16, 2017 at 5:45 am
RE: A interesting question - by Fake Messiah - June 16, 2017 at 6:34 am
RE: A interesting question - by ignoramus - June 16, 2017 at 6:54 am
RE: A interesting question - by brewer - June 16, 2017 at 6:58 am
RE: A interesting question - by Anomalocaris - June 16, 2017 at 8:31 am
RE: A interesting question - by Drich - June 16, 2017 at 11:41 am
RE: A interesting question - by vorlon13 - June 16, 2017 at 12:05 pm
RE: A interesting question - by downbeatplumb - June 16, 2017 at 1:54 pm
RE: A interesting question - by vorlon13 - June 16, 2017 at 2:01 pm
RE: A interesting question - by vorlon13 - June 16, 2017 at 2:01 pm
RE: A interesting question - by 21stCenturyIconoclast! - June 20, 2017 at 11:55 pm
RE: A interesting question - by vorlon13 - June 21, 2017 at 1:09 am
RE: A interesting question - by The Grand Nudger - June 22, 2017 at 10:24 am
RE: A interesting question - by LostLocke - June 22, 2017 at 10:58 am
RE: A interesting question - by The Grand Nudger - June 22, 2017 at 11:05 am
RE: A interesting question - by ignoramus - June 23, 2017 at 4:50 am
RE: A interesting question - by Court Jester - June 23, 2017 at 7:50 am
RE: A interesting question - by ignoramus - June 23, 2017 at 8:44 am

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