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cbayer

(146,218 posts)
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 07:41 AM Jun 2014

Hey religion, your misogyny is showing

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/25/hey-religion-your-misogyny-is-showing/


Kate Kelly and Meriam Ibrahim have both been found guilty of apostasy by all-male councils.

June 25th, 2014
11:29 AM ET

Opinion by Randal Maurice Jelks, special to CNN

(CNN) – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from South Africa, called one of his books “God is Not a Christian.”

He might have added a subtitle, “God is not a man, either!”

One of the great problems in our world is patriarchy. The late James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, put best in song, “It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World.”

Patriarchy assumes that men are made to lead and women are simply cooperative and reproductive subordinates.

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Hey religion, your misogyny is showing (Original Post) cbayer Jun 2014 OP
Yeah, it always has been. trotsky Jun 2014 #1

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
1. Yeah, it always has been.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:33 AM
Jun 2014

Human beings are going to find reasons to have control over each other - religion has always been one of the best tools to accomplish this. After all, you can't argue with "other ways of knowing" or violate "god's will!"

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