So obviously when monotheism became prominant, the status of women went down the tubes. All of this Paulian nonsense about asking your husband to ask something in church rather than speaking and stuff like that is a good example, but the OT is full of similar crapola. The Koran, from what I can tell, has been misinterpreted to the detriment of women.
Usually, people say that this was done by patriarchal societies to control women, but I think it was more likely done as religious propaganda to dissuade people from Goddess worship.
How many Jews and Christians today know what the Shekinah is? It strikes me that the early monotheistic religions did not supress the Feminine, but we do today.
Your thoughts?
2006-09-22 02:37:35 · 7 answers · asked by ZombieTrix 2012 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Edit: Bad Cosmo, thanks for that information. Why would that be a problem, though? If you want to learn something, why would that be discouraged? And why only women? It's not a problem if men disrupt with questions, but it is for women? Or perhaps the women were questioning the church Patriarchy?
2006-09-22 02:48:57 · update #1
I think Judeo-Christian religions are over patriarchal. I know what the Shekina is, but it still seems like God is viewed overall as male and Shekina is just a female aspect of a male god. In Christiandom, the Bible starts out with a story that defames women, the Goddess and her sacred animal, the snake. I'm done with it all. I'm a big ole Goddess worshipper myself.
2006-09-22 02:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by Lillith 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Interesting idea....I'm not qualified to say one way or another, but to me it makes some sense. Perhaps it was icing on the cake, a secondary reason for writing as they did?
I'm thinking of the movie/book Mists of Avalon. If that was in any way representative of how the pagan religions are, where women are equal if not more prominent than men, it makes perfect sense to me that they'd have to take drastic measures to get the former pagan women to zip their lips.
2006-09-22 09:57:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Regarding Paul's orders to the churche, it was because that particular church had a problem with women disrupting the service with questions. That is why he gave that command.
2006-09-22 09:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by Bad Cosmo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have no clue what you are talking about. All I see here is a bunch of Gnostic thought rehashed with militant feminism, and a lot of ignorance as to the role of women in the early Church.
2006-09-22 09:42:13 · answer #4 · answered by atreadia 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They did their best to put the status of women down to hide the fact we have the psychic strength over them equivalent to their physical strength over us. It was one thing they could not control. They did their best to rid the world of it and kill anyone with those skills but too bad. The tide has turned as it does every so thousand years.
2006-09-22 09:42:03 · answer #5 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Write a thesis, after it's published, I'll read it and tell you.
2006-09-22 09:39:25 · answer #6 · answered by steelypen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha
2006-09-22 09:40:28 · answer #7 · answered by baddrose268 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋