Does the New Testament contain sexism?

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If one can not learn in the ways the schools have taught forever, then literally that person is without an education. Therfore a learning disablity prevents one from being educated in the way we teach our children. Most people can not afford to send their kids to the few schools who specialize in teaching kids with learning disablities.

They could be educated at home with the parents learning about those special methods. Really, just because you weren't educated properly doesn't mean it is impossible for everyone with a learning disability.

that's crap. Do you want a 'doctor' with a learning disablity to do your open heart surgery, or do you want someone who graduated at the top of his class?

Its not discrimination to want the best person for the job. And if the guy with the learning disability turned out to be prodigy at open heart surgery, then I'd definitely want him.

It seems you think that soceity only divides us in areas where we have control. it doesn't. My last post demonstrates this. So my question is if we are willing to be divided in soceity where one is born one way or another, then what is the big deal here?

I never said society didn't divide us where we don't have control - that would imply that discrimination doesn't exist and it does. My statement is about what society should do and your post falls flat in that regard.

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Well, that's not true. i choose to be a movie star, then a rock star, then I chose to be a pilot...
None of these things happened for me. However soceity would allow me to mop floors and clean up after mechanics.

And what actions did you take to enact those choices.

That's not true at all. Would you let someone with diminished mental capasities fly a passenger jet? why not? Why is your judgement here any more valid that a call to judgement base on the inherent properties of gender?

If the guy could properly fly a jet then sure, I would. And that is why judgement is more valid - it is based on ability and not on imagined "inherent properties of gender".

Your missing my point, however i get yours. Infact lets now take gender and/or race off the table. What's left is What I am talking about. Issues dealing with social/ecconomic class, education, are the primary desciding factors in how our soceity works. These are often times non-elected attributes that are assigned at birth. few if any break these chains. (Speaking on a world wide scale not some mothers cousin you maybe thinking of)

So my question is, if it is ok to segergate the populace using the standards of education and social ecconomic class (something one is generally born into) then why is it then not ok to make these divisions anywhere else it may benfit soceity?

Those are non-elected attributes at birth, but they can and are frequently changeable. Secondly, one of the goals of the society is to remove those variations - so clearly, they are not okay with that unequal opportunity presented.

Then there is the fact that the segregation here is the result of what you are capable of - not what you are. And that segregation is quite acceptable.