recently the debate over sabrimala temple speaks volumes on the discrimination of women by all religions owing to their biological changes in the body. is it a reason for people to decide women can be kept out of temples.
2006-07-09 05:30:16 · 10 answers · asked by we_ mik 2 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
If we think back to the times of old where there was an abundance of wild animals, a woman's cycle attracted death. Animals could smell a woman's menses and therefore would go into villages etc and kill.
I believe that the initial reason for keeping women separate from not only places of worship but also villages as well, was to safe guard the peoples. Over the years however, banning of women during menses has stayed in place yet in some cases, the dangers are no longer present.
The culture that I am from would not allow a woman to go into the sea, alone or with others during her menses. When I asked my grandmother why. . .she said because it will attract the sharks. This straight forward answer to my question helped me to understand why biological changes in my body would prevent me from participating in some activities. It wasn't because there was anything wrong with me, it was to keep me and others safe.
2006-07-09 05:56:35 · answer #1 · answered by thefourwindsministry 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In reading the Old Testament, Leviticus, which spells out various laws, and calculating the days described as, "unclean" for women according to their menstrual cycle, it is obvious that these laws made women, "clean" during the most fertile days of their reproductive cycles. Forbidding women from entering temples is one of many laws that surrounded a woman's menstrual cycle. Another law was that a person was forbidden from even sitting on the same chair as a woman in menstruation had sat. These laws effectively made touching a menstruating, and post-menstruation, woman so taboo that it encouraged sexual relations at a time of a woman's reproductive cycle that would most likely produce pregnancy. These laws thereby assisted in the command to, "Be fruitful, and multiply."
2006-07-09 05:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by QuarkNeurino 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most religions believe that in "that time of the month", a woman's body is unclean and unholy. In many orthodox Hindu homes a girl is not allowed to cook and eat with everyone else.
2006-07-09 05:42:01 · answer #3 · answered by Dhanashri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Officially they will say a woman is 'unclean' because she is issuing blood.
Unofficially, it is plain old bigotry. As someone once said, "I don't trust anything that can bleed for four days and not die".
2006-07-09 05:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by snoweagleltd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How absurd! So if men go bald they shouldn't be allowed in these temples as well.
2006-07-09 05:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by Frank R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you've heard the expression "on her rags"? that could want to provide you a contact. basically they might use old rags that did not count in the adventure that they were given stained. even if or not they were reused i do not understand.
2016-10-14 06:52:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is because it is said that when a women is on her monthly, she is regarded as unclean.
2006-07-09 05:42:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How are they discriminated against? Who would know if it was their period anyway? The question is stupid.
2006-07-09 05:41:03 · answer #8 · answered by Abbey V 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are just followingf what they read in their bibles. You can't blame them for that.
2006-07-09 06:20:48 · answer #9 · answered by carlos p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if they want to worship, no matter what. let them do it.
2006-07-09 07:19:21 · answer #10 · answered by sherbert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋