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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 12:10 pm
Quote:RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
Free support system? Free child care? Built-in social network?
Going off the cuff here, but since women are more often the primary care-giver to children (the ones who more often take the time off work to be with the sick kid, or the one who doesn't work to be a stay-at-home parent, or the one who more often gets custody of kids in a divorce, etc) there can be a lot more pressure on women to join a church that already has in place the child care programs and the social network of other mothers trying to make things work.
Losty Wrote:women have the extra guilt of being born female.
I would clarify that to say women have been given the extra guilt of being born female. I wasn't born feeling guilty about my gender, that guilt would have been taught to me.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 3:05 pm
(February 27, 2015 at 10:17 am)Spooky Wrote: Christianity is a misogynistic violent religion - There are numerous passages in the bible telling you how much it sucks to be Female. Do women just ignore that? It's the same reason anyone joins a religion, a sense of security; either embracing or simply ignoring it is just part and parcel of the whole conversion process
Quote:Judaism isn't any better. They take it all the way to gender separation in the synagogues.
To be fair, Judaism isn't really a religion one converts to lightly. Apparently, you have to be turned down three times by a rabbi before they'll take you seriously as a convert.
Quote:Islam is just fucking nuts. Women are just slightly above property. Why the hell would any woman want to be Muslim?
Bear in mind, at the time of Muhammad, Islam's stance on women was still a step up from his contemporaries at the time. Sadly, in many cases, Islamic societies still lag far behind in women's rights because they haven't bothered to take another step up in the intervening 1436 years.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 7:30 pm
(February 27, 2015 at 11:13 am)Spooky Wrote: (February 27, 2015 at 10:34 am)Losty Wrote: That also seems obvi to me. Religion is more oppressive to women than it is to men. Many religious people instill a very strong sense of guilt in their followers. Everyone should feel guilty just for being born, but women have the extra guilt of being born female. I distinctly recall a day when I was maybe 7 or 8 and our pastor did an entire sermon on how women are naturally manipulative and that's why god commands men to be the leaders of the family and keep their women under their wing. It's to protect them from themselves. To save them from their own sinful nature, and as a father would use discipline to turn his daughter back to god so shall it be between a man and his wife. I will never forget that sermon so long as I live.
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. You were 7 or 8 and the bullshit bells were already ringing.
It made me feel uncomfortable, but I thought it was just because something was wrong with me. I know from personal experience how hard it is to break away from the guilt and the shame. I've barely been an atheist for 1 year. I was still a "Christian" when I joined TTA. I was afraid. I was raised to be afraid.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 9:06 pm
There are stupid women you know.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 9:36 pm
I'm sorry. Everytime you call anyone stupid all I can think of is how you tattooed a swatstica on your dick.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 10:16 pm
(February 27, 2015 at 9:06 pm)psychoslice Wrote: There are stupid women you know. Your deduction skills amaze me.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 10:30 pm
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(February 27, 2015 at 9:36 pm)Losty Wrote: I'm sorry. Everytime you call anyone stupid all I can think of is how you tattooed a swatstica on your dick.
maybe stupid to you, but it makes my dick look mean and nasty.
(February 27, 2015 at 10:16 pm)Dystopia Wrote: (February 27, 2015 at 9:06 pm)psychoslice Wrote: There are stupid women you know. Your deduction skills amaze me.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 10:43 pm
(February 27, 2015 at 10:30 pm)psychoslice Wrote: (February 27, 2015 at 9:36 pm)Losty Wrote: I'm sorry. Everytime you call anyone stupid all I can think of is how you tattooed a swatstica on your dick.
maybe stupid to you, but it makes my dick look mean and nasty.
I'm assuming that by "mean and nasty" you're implying it looks like a diseased and rotted hot dog left in the heat of a Wal-mart parking lot somewhere in the deep south in the middle of August.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 10:54 pm
(February 27, 2015 at 10:43 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: (February 27, 2015 at 10:30 pm)psychoslice Wrote: maybe stupid to you, but it makes my dick look mean and nasty.
I'm assuming that by "mean and nasty" you're implying it looks like a diseased and rotted hot dog left in the heat of a Wal-mart parking lot somewhere in the deep south in the middle of August.
Now don't go picking on my one eye trouser snake.
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RE: Why would women want to join a Religion?
February 27, 2015 at 11:00 pm
I've literally sucked hundreds of feet of dick, and to my knowledge, none were tattooed. Granted, quite a bit of this was done in the dark, but it seems a proud tat wearer would have pointed out certain embellishments on the occasion.
Interesting side bar on the topic, carry on.
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