(November 24, 2013 at 3:33 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Christianity isn't clear cut (Scripturally) against women. There are passages that affirm no priority between men and women. There are passages against this, but the usual one pointed out from Paul's letters (about women and authority) is probably a later interpolation. There were some pro-women stuff in some sects of earlier Christianity, but clearly that didn't last.
This is one of the point in which Christianity get contradictory. At several points in Paul's letters, Paul preaches that women are equal to men in the eyes of God but elsewhere in scripture including some of Paul's letters, we are told that they are not equal to men. It is a contradiction that is often overlooked.
And yes, some of the more Gnostic sects treated women as equals but there were Gnostic sects that were even more oppressive than orthodox Christianity whereas they preached like Buddha did, that women were the root of all evil.
