To Atheists and Theists alike: Sexism in religions that follow Christ??

Question

I believe these dominations, along with most others, have HIGHLY sexist values.

Obviously not to the extent of faiths such as Islam, but I still believe you can find high-profile examples of sexism within Western religion. What do YOU think?

...please be ready to defend your point as I'm coming at you with questions such as:

What is the ratio of women to men amongst religious leaders?
Have you ever heard of an esteemed "Archbishop-ess"?
Or a "Pope-ess"?

Not to mention the oppressive idealisms such as making it a woman's responsibility to remain "pure" until wedlock...

....BUT. I could very well be wrong... So answers are appreciated.

I DID ask a question... "What do YOU think?".... I want your opinion on the matter.

Answer 1

I just recently read a quote from the bible saying basically the wife is a subject to her husband's rule just as he is subject to god. Not really a human power differential, the man is on a whole higher plane of existence!! This is about as sexist as it gets if you ask me. It's the man's job to make decisions for the family and the wife's job to maintain it. This would've been a workable idea when women were gathering berries and nuts, having to stay close to the kids because after all, they have breasts to feed them with.
The men could be gone for a while in order to hunt and provide high-protein meals, as well as scout out new territory. But nowadays, I would expect a slap from a woman or man for saying some **** like that!

As far as waiting for marriage, I think the expectations are the same, but in practice men fool around a bit more, or at least get caught because we're morons about it. But hey, men also dominate the judicial system and have for a long time. Nobody wants to be cheated on or hear about their spouse sleeping around before marriage. The men just had the power and ability to punish.

Answer 2

WOW,
Some body up there did not like my answer or attitude... or something, I got glitched off in the middle of an answer, got bleeped off when I tried to email you....oooouuuuuwoooo
Anyway after reading other answers I was just as glad be cause I would surely gotten thumbs Down.....Oh what the he~~

Yes women are discriminated against, in religion and else where, I tried to use a whats good for the Gander remark and realized I didn't know what a female goose was called and guess what, they are discriminated too. Just goose.....original bird books, Audubon, duh, a man.... heh heh
The female/Mom in a family has been the person holding religions together for at least the 20th and 21st centuries while Pop if he wasn't a hellsfire and brimstone family leader had other things to do on Sunday AM.
Methodists, New Age,(they actually pray to father/mother God) some Episcopalians, some Lutheran, I have heard are letting females lead...I don't think I will live to see a female Pope but I don't think any one person should have that much power over un suspecting followers anyway, soooo, quite a cult ....boo hiss I know, here come the thumbs.....
I do think it would have been nice if more men had sayed virgin rather than more women saying "What is good for the Gander is now good for the goose also" loosely quoted pun intended.....
Many churches think they have made great strides letting men and women both sit where ever they want rather than,
women on one side, men on the other
How about you Wrathe, are you sexist????? or just male???

Answer 3

Religions are sexist-they were written thousands/hundreds of years ago (depending if they were edited or not I guess)
but they would have been passed down by men & these men probably had sexist views & wrote them in even if they are holy & passed down from God (or who ever)
although I don't neccessarily argue with remianing pure until wedlock in a sense sex is too free today too many people will just go out & "get laid" go home & forget about it
but yes you women do (even today) still have many issues with equal treatment but in the diffence (& I guess it goes against this too) but I think women having to be the sex that produces offspring causes time off work so they cannot work their way up as easily if they have to take this time off although obviously this will work against female being employed into higher roles in the first place if the employer believes I have a male here he'll be able to work until he leaves or I have a female here that may take time off to have kids
but I agree with you religion is highly sexist due to men passing down the religion
i think anyway

Answer 4

Perhaps this question is more concerned with 'gender bias' than with 'sexism'! Gender demarcation has been a natural compulsion through all ages in the evolution of human civilization so far, with advancement in mobility and agility in society, of women actually happening in more recent times, in contemporary civilization, with the outlook promising and moving steadily towards equality subject to only very logical constraints like child birth and related restrictions for mothers, some health conditions like menstruation, menopause etc. In areas where men and women are equally abled and talented, gender bias seems to be weakening!

Answer 5

In Biblical time it's was believed that women was to serve man
and I have to agree with
you that a lot domination along with others
have sexist values,Islam as well western religion and if you like to know who originally started the morals 'were a women place
was' is *Saint Augusta of the Roman Catholic Church* you can
fine the history of Saint Augusta www.wikipedia encyclopedia.com, I hope this will help your research

Answer 6

Agnostic Atheist, Secular Humanist

Answer 7

I do agree that there are more male clergy than female clergy in the vast majority of Christian sects the world over. However, the most important thing about gender equality is not the gender statistics of the clergy but the teachings of a particular religion on gender equality. I believe that that is well summed up here:

Galatians 3:28. "There is neither Jew nor Greek. there is neither slave nor free man. there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

Regarding the "idealism" of remaining pure until marriage that applies to both men and women equally.

Answer 8

I don't have a good understanding of all of christianity, but I do Know that One time, I went to a "Church of Christ, Scientist" and all of the 'officiators' were women and they ended all prayers with "in the name of our father, mother god" apparently there is one denomination that likes chicks?

Answer 9

I'm afraid to answer anything. Yahoo deletes my answer and takes away ten points. Yahoo is like a religion. there might be sexism, I don't know.

Answer 10

ok, but you didn't ask a question. I see what your getting at though. yeah, christians are pretty sexist. They teach that the world is owned by men and women are nothing. They are very primitive. I'm not a christian, I'm a pagan.