Why are women religious when the religion that they follow hates them?

Question

I mean have you even read your Holy Book? Well just incase you haven't I shall leave the following for your attention. But I urge you not to take my word for it but to check it out yourself. Go on do it now, otherwise you'll think I'm making this **** up. Oh and I haven't even got onto the Qur'an yet.

GENESIS
2:22 Eve created from Adam's rib.
3:16 Cursed with painful childbirth and domination by husband.
4:17 Cain marries sister?
4:19 Man marries two wives.
12:13-19 Abraham prostitutes wife.
19:1-8 Rape virgin daughters instead of male angels.
19:26 Lot's wife turned into pillar of salt for disobeying god.
19:30-38 Lot impregnates his two daughters while drunk. (So much for "family values"!)
20:2-12 Abraham prostitutes wife - again.
25:1-6 Keeping many concubines is OK.

EXODUS
20:17 Wife as property.
21:4 Wife and children belong to master.
21:7-11 OK to sell daughters. Female slaves can be used for sex.
Polygamy permitted.

http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/womenbible.htm
LEVITICUS
12:1 Childbirth a sin, Women unclean after childbirth.
15:19-32 Menstruating women are unclean.
20:10-16 Death penalty for homosexuality and various sexual transgressions.
21:7 Priests must not marry prostitutes or divorcees.
21:9 Burn daughters.
21:13-14 Priest must marry virgin, not "used" woman.

NUMBERS
1:2 Census lists only men - women do not count.
5:11-31 Fidelity test for women only.
30:1-16 Woman's vow invalid unless approved by her father or husband.
31:17-18 Kill all except virgins. Keep virgins for yourselves.
CH 12 Miriam punished for rebuking Moses.

DEUTERONOMY
20:14 Take women, livestock as plunder.
22:13-21 Stone non-virgin bride.
22:23-24 Stone rapist and rape victim.
22:28 Rape victim must marry rapist; rape victim's father compensated for depreciation of his property.
25:11-12 Cut woman's hand for touching foe's penis.
24:1-5 Man can "send" wife from HIS house. Man must not marry "u

Answer 1

To answer your question regarding Genesis 3:16 about Eve having painful childbirths and being dominated by her husband, here it is:

When God made that declaration after Adam & Eve had sinned was not a statement of what men 'should' do but what God foreknew they 'would' do now that selfishness had become part of human life. If you read the Bible in its entirety, you will find a number of accounts that tell of the very unhappy situations that developed because of such 'selfish' domination by males. But the Bible does 'not' say that God approved of such conduct or that it is an example for other males to follow.

Also read the scripture at Ephesians 5:28-30 that shows how husband 'should' be treating their wives. This is scripture is great counsel for all males to follow.

Answer 2

Very in depth study. I appreciate the thought you put into your question. One thing I would respond to in referencing the Bible is that not everything in the Bible is Prescriptive, but descriptive. This means that numerous of the stories you mention merely describe a behavior that God Himself would detest and in no way prescribes such action.
There is a verse in Galations that explains that under Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, slave or free man, etc. This is the banner under which Christians live. In the same way the U.S. court system lives under the principle of Justice. The may not always live up to that and may even seem to screw up any attempt to live out Justice, but that does not negate the concept of the Justice system. So too with God. God does not put women in a lower class. The verb form for "helper" that Eve is called in Genesis is a verb form that is only used of God elsewhere. It is a very high term that is different (maybe even better) than Adam.
There is also a book writtne all about a Woman. (Esther) A woman was a judge of Israel. Rahab the prostitute is in Jesus' lineage. Also as the Christian church was being established there were numerous women of prominence who flocked to Christianity b/c it actually gave them more rights and freedoms than the popular Roman and Jewish culture. This freedom led the Roman culture to determine this Christian sect was full of weird sacrifices and orgies. This is the Christianity that women come to. What happens that negates this is wrong. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.

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Answer 3

Only in Islam are women treated with honor and respect. In Islam Adam(PBUH*) and Eve are both blamed for the Fall. They both repented and ALLAH made Adam(PBUH*) the first caliph or prophet of Islam. Then HE cast them in separate areas of the Earth and they finally found each other Masha' ALLAH. Islam doesn't see women as being cursed from menstrual cycles HE only told us that a man and woman(husband and wife) should not have sex during the woman's cycle. Mothers are especially honored in Islam. Women and daughters are treated like queens in Islam. In Christianity and Judaism women are seen as a curse to man and are the only ones blamed for the Fall and are supposed to inherit this "guilt" that Eve has.

Answer 4

Just since the books have killing, rape, and slavery in it (gotta preserve the reader interested!) doesn't suggest that the faith itself does not educate love. It is PEOPLE who twist the phrases from the books and PEOPLE who twist meanings into what they wish. five men and women learn the identical booklet, five men and women stroll away ALL with yet another viewpoint on what they only learn. I realize a few Muslims who're candy and unusual men and women who NEVER condemn or exhibit intolerance. I realize a couple of Christians who're too. They are to me the epitomy of what the faith quite teaches.

Answer 5

You have taken all these scriptures out of context. It's amazing that you can find all of these and not find the ones on false teachers and the antichrist. As you probably already know Jesus use several women in His Ministry. He also has said many of times "There is no respect of person". Also did you see where Deborah was a judge(leader) in the book of Judges? Several laws were written to please man. What were the ten commandments?

Answer 6

Interesting

Answer 7

Think about it all of what you just said has given me the women great strength and just imagine when you add the Quran to it the strenght I'll gather. Don't you see that every misconception always gives the victim strength? There is always more than one side to every coin. Our beliefs lie in what side we are looking on.

Answer 8

Because woman, being the life giver, loves God. Men have slammed the doorway to God, in womans faces. So, number two tries harder. The bible was written by 66 men, and is predudiced against women. The old testament is full of lies and slander, and propaganda against women.
All mans crimes, are written, in the old testament, for posterity. The old testament is about the Law, and the men who broke it, like chopping a woman up, after being raped to death, by a gang of rabbid, unchecked men, brutal beasts, -- chopped her up, into eight pieces, and threw them on eight seperate doorways. Woman absolutely had no choice in this, because they are the weaker sex. Brutality was the rule of the day! Men noticed woman were good looking, and did, namely, whatever they wanted to. Men made all History with Brutality. God raised up Prophets, in thier time, to record the crimes of man.
These Prophets ususlly stood alone, against the established religion of the day. The "man with the writter's ink horn", recorded the crimes of man, along with prophetic words for Israel. (The biblical Israel is always the women, or church.)
So, the old testament is a record of what man did, not what God did, and it is very bad. By the time the bible began to be written, man was ruler of the earth, and whatever they did to women, was not counted as a crime, in fact, it wasn't even thought about. Man owned woman. Man called all woman prostitutes because of the lie about the first Mother Eve. This is what all religious men uses, to justify thier horrible crimes.
The Jews failed to Honour thier Mother, and the Gentiles failed to Honour thier Mother. Why are woman much more spiritual than men? Because they have learned over the millenia, thier only choice was to look to God because, there is no hope in man. Do not look to man to save you, he is the most dominant predator, and most intelligent beast or primate that walks. Knowledge is dangerous in the wrong hands. So when history was written, man just made himself look good because he could, and the woman look bad, because he could.

Answer 9

And women can't reach a high position of the Church like Priest or Bishop

Answer 10

I believe that Jesus came down to earth to free us from religions. He knew that people are doing wrong things under the umbrella of religion. Jesus wanted to teach us to have a relationship with God, the kind of relationship that saves and changes our life.

God want us to love on another. We are under the new covenant. We get saved by the mercy of God. I love my Lord and I follow Him, not any religion.