Quote:As a secularist, my view is that Christianity indeed deserves credit for giving women a more respected position in the Church than what was typically accepted in their culture.
Um, not really. Roman women did not have it so bad and by the first century AD were considerably better off than the xtian version of women's rights which was "STFU and do what you're told."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Rome
Social class determined quality of life to a much greater degree than sex.
