Is the Torah SEXIST????

Question

Exodus 21:10 God ordains men taking several wives and even sets up laws as to how multiple wives should be handled.

WOW!!! Education is never a waste!lol

Answer 1

They're all designed to opress women.

edit: lady Suri makes a point. The torah, and Quran both accept polygamy. The Quran says only for those who can be equal to all the wives. If there is any man in the world who can be equal to two women, than it's acceptable. However, since that's *not possible*, I would argue that polygamy is not allowed in any religion.

Answer 2

The bible is no more than a group of very primitive men writing what they think is right

The bible is only useful in a social development class of how early man formed community's

Thats it

Not only is the entire book sexist it is racist and a few other things

Slavery - A ok according to the old book and Jesus

beating children - A ok

Killing non believers - somthing to be encouraged

Letting a man with a crushed testicle be a Preist that is a big no no

The incredible instructions on how to handle the problem of menstration - wow just read that one -

How to cure Leprosy with 2 turtle doves and a visit to the local priest - Just when you thought the menstration crap could never be topped

I went to school to study the bible and spent 4 years in a Theology program -

I am glad I did that - But I know now that if any thinking person actually read the bible it would be laughed at - and then cried over that we took this stuff seriously at one point in our collective history

It is a sad tale of abuse hate racists slave traders and bizare people who needed medication and never got it

Answer 3

First is God male? Please show me the verse where God tell us his/her/its gender. There isn't one.

The Torah as written by Moses expresses a paternal culture where women were property, men had multiple wives, and the tradition was passed down from one generation to another by males. Was Moses a sexist? Or a realist?

Any Jew will tell you that the covenant that Israel and his descendants and God must be renew each generation. Do you think women, mothers of the new generation, have any more privileges today?

Answer 4

Another great idea the fundamentalist christians seem to be taking a pass on.
Face facts women are petulant and a little inclined to being bossy. My wifes favorite shirt had Tweety bird saying "So what if I'm bossy.". Women truely operate most effectively behind the scenes. I wear the pants go to work pay the bills and she really does what suits her. Give the fellas a little slack to swell the old pride with. Everyone knows that women really run the world. Those scripture things are mostly all the guys getting together and saying hell ya I am running this show. They write it down in their little clubhouse book. But when they get home at night............

Answer 5

Sexist is another word for the laws created in nature.

Females have a role, males have another. No one is meant to substitute the other or has higher value than the other.

The ordaining of several wife's makes sense (for example) during times of war when men die. What would you have happen. One wife each surviving male and the other women go without?

I am Muslim by faith and am always flabbergasted by how people focus in on this one point. At least there is enough honour in this system that a man takes a 2nd wife in front of the whole world and is not sneaky, lying, cheating and having a mistress or affair on the side.

Women can't have more than one husband, because the father of children wouldn't be known to society.

Myself, I wouldn't do it. But if 3 adults agree on it, what's it to you? Maybe you're the one who's sexist standing in judgement of women who live in multi-spouse relationships.

Answer 6

the torah would include many firsts for women

1) eve was the first defender of the faith
2) the world declared VERY GOOD only after the creation of Eve
3) the first act of righteous civil disobedience byt he Egyptian midwives who spared the Hebrew boy babies
4) the first legal challenge by the daughters of Zepophehad to MOses and God said they were right in the legal inheritance issue they brought up

as far as multiple wives.... God allowed things that were not the best... because of the hardness of peoples hearts according to Jesus... these would include divorce... regulation of slavery and multiple marriages... there are no cases of happy multiple marriages in the BIble I know of

Answer 7

Just like the laws of "slavery" in the Torah, they make the situation difficult to the point that no one can do these things and truly follow the law.

Answer 8

How would that be sexist? Polygamy had been practiced thousands of years before Judaism and afterwards, too. Except they didn't have laws governing it. Those laws in the Torah govern the practice to make sure the woman are properly cared for. Wouldn't that suggest that the Torah ISN'T sexist?

Also, if you read the Torah, every polygamous relationship in the Tanakh ends badly--a good hint to future generations to outlaw it.

Answer 9

All of the literature from that period is sexist. Keep in mind that women often died in childbirth and children died in infancy so it was common to have more than one wife to replace the wives and children who died.

These ordinances have been set aside. Judaism is constantly changing and being questioned. That is part of the religion.

Answer 10

Maybe they had samesex marriage back then, and "wives" could be both sexes.... in that case, there would be absolutely nothing "sexist" about Exodus 21:10.