Many of you are probably aware of all the sexism contained in the Holy Bible. It instructs women to be silent in church, as well as many other prejudicial statements.
But I was reading through Genesis today and, during the snafu in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit, these particular words stood out to me:
And to Adam he said,
Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I have commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it', cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
He ate the fruit and disobeyed God because he....listened to his wife? That is the most flagrantly sexist remark I have heard in a long time. Oh, Adam would have been fine if he had just not listened to his stupid bitch wife, Eve who is a woman and therefore inherently makes bad decisions.
I also wonder why God is a man in the Holy Bible. Since no one can prove the existence of God, God is therefore a figment of the imagination. That may sound a bit ignorant, but it's actually logical. Standard College Dictionary defines imagination as "The process of forming mental images of the objects of perception or thought in the absence of the concrete external stimuli." In other words, if it does not have manifesting measurable qualities (exists in the material world) then it exists only in one's imagination. God(s) is(are) the perfect example of that. There is no documented evidence of any God in the material world, so therefore he/she/it/they do/does not exist in the material world. So the authors of the Holy Bible, which is a book of almost pure fiction, have chosen to say God is a man because of the male dominance in their society. Women were not even allowed to vote in the U.S. until 1919, and men undoubtedly saw them as subordinate to men in antiquity. I would argue that is why the Holy Bible's authors made the Christian God a man.
Then there are the biblical passages about men and lust. Why is it not all right for men to look at women lustfully, but it doesn't say whether it is okay for women to look at men lustfully. Let us let Darrel and Matt answer that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3VrFFjp0...7&index=19
Don't listen to the Holy Bible. It's crap.
But I was reading through Genesis today and, during the snafu in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit, these particular words stood out to me:
And to Adam he said,
Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I have commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it', cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
He ate the fruit and disobeyed God because he....listened to his wife? That is the most flagrantly sexist remark I have heard in a long time. Oh, Adam would have been fine if he had just not listened to his stupid bitch wife, Eve who is a woman and therefore inherently makes bad decisions.
I also wonder why God is a man in the Holy Bible. Since no one can prove the existence of God, God is therefore a figment of the imagination. That may sound a bit ignorant, but it's actually logical. Standard College Dictionary defines imagination as "The process of forming mental images of the objects of perception or thought in the absence of the concrete external stimuli." In other words, if it does not have manifesting measurable qualities (exists in the material world) then it exists only in one's imagination. God(s) is(are) the perfect example of that. There is no documented evidence of any God in the material world, so therefore he/she/it/they do/does not exist in the material world. So the authors of the Holy Bible, which is a book of almost pure fiction, have chosen to say God is a man because of the male dominance in their society. Women were not even allowed to vote in the U.S. until 1919, and men undoubtedly saw them as subordinate to men in antiquity. I would argue that is why the Holy Bible's authors made the Christian God a man.
Then there are the biblical passages about men and lust. Why is it not all right for men to look at women lustfully, but it doesn't say whether it is okay for women to look at men lustfully. Let us let Darrel and Matt answer that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3VrFFjp0...7&index=19
Don't listen to the Holy Bible. It's crap.
