RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian?
March 5, 2013 at 5:10 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2013 at 5:11 pm by CleanShavenJesus.)
(March 4, 2013 at 1:36 pm)John V Wrote:Quote:It has rules on submission of women to men, how to punish them.What passages are you referring to?
Quote:And treats them like property in the 10 commandments in the same class as donkeys and slaves.Incorrect. That property can be coveted does not imply that all things that can be coveted are property.
The Bible constantly objectivies women and puts women underneath men, a couple of examples are actually kind of sick.
Quote:And if a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her. If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter. If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights. If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money. (Exodus 21:7-11)
Quote:"Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go." (Judges 19:24-25)
Quote:"For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." (I Corinthians 11:8-9)
Quote:"If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;" (Deuteronomy 22:22)
"Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you." (Deuteronomy 22:24)
And the one we all know (and the one Brian was talking about with Adam and Eve)...
Quote:"Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." (I Timothy 2:11-14)
There is no reading this "in context". It's wrong, plain and simple. If Christians didn't cherrypick the Bible, women would be incredibly inferior to men.
There are even more examples of female oppression, but it would take much too long to find all of them.
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