RE: More atheist men than women?
July 6, 2015 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2015 at 1:23 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(July 6, 2015 at 1:16 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Also, the anonymity of the internet allows the women on your forum to be more vocal, whereas most men feel like they can say whatever they want IRL within a patriarchal institution.
I don't think so. Most Catholic women on there aren't on there to say bad stuff about Catholicism. Most of them are very devout.
And women can say what they want. The pope does not "punish" women for saying something, while being ok with men saying the same thing. ;-)
We don't need to hide behind the internet to say what we want about the Church.
(July 6, 2015 at 1:18 pm)Metis Wrote:(July 6, 2015 at 12:25 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Women generally tend to be more emotional, and have a stronger need for community. Generally speaking. Theism caters to both of those.
They also tend to have a far stronger sense of attachment to tradition and culture, as well as living longer than men and have a greater chance of attaining the lay elder/mystic status which in turn can have some influence upon the intellectual formation of other women.
I think a big part of it is an unwillingness to rock the boat; men are usually far more aggressive and willing to object to the status quo than women who are more inclined to work with the system instead of flipping the table entirely.
This makes sense.
(July 6, 2015 at 1:19 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(July 6, 2015 at 1:14 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Ok, but isn't this experienced by the minority of people in abusive situations? It seems most of them would still want to leave.
If a religion was abusing women and treating them like prisoners, while treating men like kings, it seems like more men would want to stay than women. Sure, I guess some women would develop SS, but it doesn't seem like it would be enough of them to make so many more women want to stay than men.
But we are also talking about the blackmail of eternal torture that is looming over everyone's head. So the stakes are believed to be much higher than an abusive relationship, and less temporal.
But this is the same for both men and women. And if anything, if I felt like I was being "blackmailed" it would make me more likely to not want to believe in any of it at all.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
