Islam and Christianity both make women 2nd based on what God says.
2006-09-04 12:57:12 · 12 answers · asked by Yani 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
no, he is a woman. "goddess"
2006-09-04 13:02:30 · answer #1 · answered by ♠Elizabetta♠ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's funny. In most popular, contemporary organized religions, women are prescribed subservience in order to gain salvation. It isn't just Islam and Christianity, either.
If nature is an invention of God, you would have to conclude that men have the crappiest role in God's Kingdom. Even at conception male sex cells compete by the millions for one female cell, with a penalty of death. Spontaneous abortion and infant mortality are highest among males, too.
Masculinity is a crazy joke if any God ever could play one: a less sophisticated immune and limbic system, a statistically low likelihood of being ugly and mating (unless you happen to strike it rich), and the natural tendency to be the brightest and easiest to eat animals in the forest, all for the sake of sex -- and they're wise to compete for sex hard. If every man but one was left on every state, that man would have more than enough sperm to knock up every woman left behind. It's a rough life for them.
I love men. I married one, anyway, and I hate feminists. I prefer not to think about my lady parts unless I absolutely have to. Nonetheless, the conclusion that I've come to is that if there is a God, men are his toothpicks.
2006-09-04 20:49:10 · answer #2 · answered by Em 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lot of things that can be said against God based on what is written in the Bible. I haven't read the Qur'an, but I assume, based on your question, the same could be said. Consider though, the belief at the time the books were written. I don't know how religious you are, but in my opinion, the books were written by males, and they demonstrate not just Christianity and Islam, but how people lived at that time.
Again I'm going to have to refer to the Bible for example, but I have met a few people who believe whole heartedly that the Bible is 100%, and if you can't prove it with the Bible, then you can't really prove it. On one hand, they say this, but on the other hand, they contradict what the Bible says by saying something like slavery is bad, yet the Bible allows slavery.
The answer to your question really depends on how you interpret the books. If you believe they were written by men to fit in their time, then the books don't make God sexist, but if you think of them as literally the words of God written down, then He does put men before women.
2006-09-04 20:11:43 · answer #3 · answered by Michelle R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What you deem as sexist is not God's word, but Man's interpretation of God's word. In Genesis 1:26 , God said "Let US make man in OUR image... Male and female he created them..."
Christ didn't have only male disciples, he had women disciples as well. He took up for women who were accused of adultery, being unclean, etc. The first person to whom he revealed himself to after his resurrection was a woman--Mary Magdalene.
Is it Paul's writings that make you feel that Christianity is a sexist religion? Writings such as "wives be submissive to your husbands" and the like? That's understandable. But he also said for husbands to love their wives and treat them with kindness. But the religion is based more importantly on the teachings of Jesus. Not the teachings of Paul. Hence the name Christianity--not Paulinism.
I cannot speak for Islam, but I can say that I am a Christian and an independent woman as well. I love my Jesus, and I never found anything that ever made me feel that Jesus was sexist. In fact, I believed he loved ALL people regardless of their gender.
2006-09-04 20:09:46 · answer #4 · answered by truth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's because the bible was written for the times, and those times said that women were 2nd to men. So that is how the bible writers wrote the bible....they were human too you know.
2006-09-04 20:00:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are women such feminists that they can't fathom God as being male? lol
2006-09-04 20:03:50 · answer #6 · answered by Island Queen 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, god is not sexist.
2006-09-04 20:02:15 · answer #7 · answered by petelephant 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can thank our sister Eve for that one
2006-09-04 20:01:03 · answer #8 · answered by Bea K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The people who invented him were.
2006-09-04 20:00:24 · answer #9 · answered by mlamb56 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the bible writers at the time might have been
2006-09-04 19:59:44 · answer #10 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes SHE is and good on her
2006-09-04 20:02:37 · answer #11 · answered by Bohemian 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋