Don't those of Abrahamic faith find it a bit suspicious that their God has such a negative opinion of women?

Question

After all - she's made from a man's rib. She needs a man to tell her what to do. She was allegedly "punished" (for the whole stupid apple thing) with mensruation and child bearing. She must submit to her husband. She has few rights and is a piece of property...I mean - doesn't that, to you, sound more like a man with a small penis worried that a man with a bigger penis might get more women? So they had to put things in place that made women property so hotter, younger men wouldn't steal young chicks from ugly old guys?

Answer 1

See you went ahead and made the mistake of reading the Bible. If you hadn't done that you would understand that all of us are God's children and everyone is created equal, and equal in God's eyes. Not just young hot virgins.

Answer 2

Actually, in Judaism, Eve was made from Adam's side--they were equal. She doesn't need a man to tell her what to do, she is the heart of the Jewish household because the center of Jewish life isn't the synagogue, it is the home, and she is the center of the home. Menstruation and child bearing is an extra responsibility given to us by G-d because we are holy enough to take it on. (This is the same reason women do not need to wear kippahs and pray at certain times). According to Judaism, the woman has just as many rights as a man in a marriage if not more, since it is the husband's duty to provide for and satisfy his wife and if he doesn't, she can leave him.

Look at things through another lens before stereotyping all Abrahamic religions.

Answer 3

My religion does not see the woman as anything close to what christianity sees.

heres a list FYI

1. In Islam, the original sin was done by both eve and adam and no where will you find a verse that throws the burden on eves shoulders. It was the devil who tempted both of them and they both forgot Gods warning and gave in.

2. The woman being made out of adams rib does nothing to the view of the woman as a whole. There is a teaching of the prophet that says: a woman is like the rib cage, shes flexible, but if u bend her (stress her) too much, she will break. So be gentle with her.

3. The woman has full rights in Islam and is never a piece of property.

4. With the responsibilities put on the men in Islam, youd think the men are the ones who are victimized. lol For example, a man has to feed his family and his parents if hes the only male in the house. Whereas a woman, is not even required to take care of her new born baby if she so doesnt feel like it.

Answer 4

The religion of Abraham has no expectations or demands for its ways being universal. It just doesn't. And it doesn't matter who pretends otherwise. Whether it's Christians redefining the concept of 'covenant' from an agreement between two parties to the only game in town. Or Muslims claiming that everyone in really Muslim. Or pagans playing us-them games with the deity they made up and call the 'Abrahamic god'. Or atheists who stick their fingers in their ears, use the worst of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism to pretend that ALL religion is evil, and refuse to accept that the majority of religions really don't care to impose themselves on others. Judaism - the actual religion of Abraham - is about one particular relationship with the divine. Of course other peoples have other ways. Diversity of practice and thinking is as necessary to survival as genetic diversity.

Answer 5

It is written in the Bible that way but if you look at the Quran you will find that women are treated with the utmost respect. It is a common misconception that Muslim women are denegrated creatures, subservient to men. You find that in the Bible where women were treated lower than slaves, and the exact opposite in the Quran. Women are respected, able to own property, work, have money of their own that is not for the family (as it is the man's responsibility to take care of the family). Eve was not punished with menstration, it is simply what happened when God created her to bear children, it is the condition of being a woman.
If you would like to read the info in the Quran its all in Surah(chapter) 2 - Al-Baqara (The Cow)

Answer 6

The scriptures the Judeo/Christian/Islamist/Ba'hai look to for a little bit of guidance are true at whichever level you wish to enter into them from. In many translations of the new testament, the gospels that were deemed politically expedient by the misogynists within the Eastern Roman Empire of 432 C.E. the word "Sin" appears with the first letter capitalized in certain places. This denotes the word as a noun not a verb. A noun is a person, place or thing. Those who wrote the origanal texts about the messiah Yeshua knew that the god of the moon in the Persian Gulf States in their era was Nannar/Sin. Sin was served by Priestesses and they chose as much as anyone else to allow the death of their representative of higher power as a natural progression.

Look to the sky amigos, the moon dies and is reborn 13 x a calendar year. Feminine power, that which our fellows in Asia might call the Yin, is utter chaos when not carefully balanced with the masculine, the Yang.

The only thing I really know as a woman who believes in female apostles of Yeshua's message is that I can't really KNOW anything. My instincts tell me to sit my punk butt down and bow my head when a True Authority appears. This is not often lately, but it does happen. A Godly woman needs only the huMAN within to instruct her whether or not to be submissive or directly confrontational to wanna be alpha males. Wanna be alphas have more to fear from the delicate flower than any braburning Amazonias. Sorry for the lengthy answer but I have thought about this very question for most of my 30 some years in my current bio-shell. Namaste!

Answer 7

Oh, Really??? Seems to me that God Favored E. as he didn't condemn her to be the carrier of Original Sin now did He??? In Fact, E. was to be the "Vehicle" for the Messiah as she didn't have a Genetically Altered disposition (unlike A.) that would prevent her from being Impregnated by God so that Christ could be born "Sin Free"!!! On the Other Hand, If Ur _itch is with Men in general, I for one REFUSE to be "Painted" with Ur "Wide Brush Strokes"!!! Of course, since U are Not a Christian, U cannot Imagine the Freedom that Knowing Christ brings & so Ur Souls Emotional Revolt against Men & the Proper Place of a Woman!!! John

Answer 8

God placed Himself into the care of a woman. Her name is Mary and she is loved universally. God made "man" but the word is only gender specific in this distorted anti male society. Both sexes comprise the word man.

Answer 9

Well,that's always been the jewish mentality,then it infected two new religions,Christianity and later Islam but it all comes from these runaway slaves from Egypt (they were actually very well-treated as I understand it). Anyway not much has changed except mainstream Christians are - finally -shaking off the OT influence, baneful thing that it is;Islam,we'll have to see how that develops. But yes,historically it all began with Judaism; prior to it's advent no religion had considered women inferior. If you've ever wondered why all those feminist radicals of the early 70's were so extreme you have to consider they were virtually all Brooklyn Jews. From traditional backgrounds. Women are not permitted to sit on the same side as males in synagogues. They are considered unclean. It gets worse from there. That why even today Jewish feminists tend to be rather extreme - look what they're reacting to.

Answer 10

actually, talmudically, the first human (adam) was both male and female until G-d divided them by taking out the rib to form a separate eve.

as for for getting punished with child-bearing, the male side got equally punished by being cursed to toil the ground for their whole life. maybe you just skipped that part. i'm not sure how punishing both male and female, and in fact the male was punished quite worse in my opinion, can be construed as "hating women."

submit to her husband? sure, maybe you can pull that one off. it does say that. of course, only a few chapters later, G-d tells abraham "in all the Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice..." whoa, G-d himself is telling abraham to obey sarah! clearly G-d wants women to be submissive little twits to their husbands.

Answer 11

Menstruation and child bearing are blessing from Jehovah, not curses, the blessing are our children, the fruitage from the belly.
Men throughout history are the ones who have mistreated women, it was part of her curse given to her by Jehovah there at the Garden of Eden for her disobedience.
In Jehovah's New System of things under the direction and control of Jesus Christ, men and women will learn to honor each other the way it was intended from the beginning.