(November 24, 2013 at 2:19 pm)Bipolar Bob Wrote: I don't think there are any women's rights in any modern religion. From the misogyny of Buddhism to the the patriarchal culture of Christianity, women have had it pretty bad in most religions. In most religions, women are at the lowest rung in the totem pole.
Yet some religions insist that they give women proper respect and ensure her of rights such as when a Muslim insists that women have rights in Islam because women are allowed to inherit property or when Christians insist women have rights because the Bible allows her to have a job selling crafts.
Are these truly rights? If you were to loosen the chains of a slave, allowing that slave to walk 10 feet more are you really giving that slave rights?
A women or a man for that matter canonly truly be said to have rights when they have the right to determine their own destiny. I see none of that in the more patriarchal Abrahamic religions and I certainly do not see it in Buddhism or Hinduism either. In all these religions, men and women are bound to traditions and culture that saps them of the right to self-determination. Their roles as man and women have been predetermined by doctrine and enforced by clergy and layman alike.
How can anyone say that religion ensures that rights of anyone when religion predetermines your course of action, the thoughts you have and your ultimate destiny? It is impossible.
So to those of you who are religious, please show me how religion ensures rights for women or men. Because it seems to me the only thing religion ensures is the enslavement of both.
Where do you get that Buddhism and Hinduism doesn't have it's own sexism? Name me any female Dali Lama ever? You do know that India is just now getting around to treating rape as unacceptable? You do also know that pre arranged marriages have been, not in all sects, but to many in Hinduism as acceptable?
ALL religions are full of absurdities, not just the Gods of Abraham.
