Faith or Subjugation? Why Religious Dogma Demands the Inferiority of Women

This post is for women. And honestly, it's what I've always wanted to say to you!

"women should remain silent in churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission..." 1 Corinthians 14:34

In comparison to men, women are more likely to believe in God, pray, or be affiliated with religion. And the question I'm going to ask in this post is an emphatic: Why? Do you realize what the bible is saying about women's position in the world and society? Do you understand the implications that your "faith" has on your health, happiness, and well-being of women?

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"And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whose pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her." Ecclesiastes 7:26, (Old Testament)

No one really knows why women are more religious then men; but I have a an educated hypothesis. Women are more emotional then men; and because religion is (often blatantly) associated with anecdotal emotional experience(s), that trigger is more likely to have a larger influence on a woman than a man. 

In other words, because faith is the cecation of thought, or acceptance of the absence of evidence, the "proof" or acceptance of god is often tied to emotional experience. (The feelings are usually formed at times of group cohesion while partaking in religious events--such as Sunday mass. Many people have a personal story where they "felt" God come into their life to tell them he exists.) That trigger of empathy, connection, unity, and oneness within one's own ingroup is more sensitive in women, and therefor more easily exploited by religion. However, I made this post to explain why women should be weary of implicitly following feelings and a false intuition. The concern is not very hard to see: 

"Wives submit to your husbands, as is fitting to the Lord." Colossians 3:18

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power...." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Christianity and espcially those who have a funamentalist approch to the bible will always see women as inferior because the bible is God's infallible word! This is because many Christians undeniably look to the bible for moral guidance. People always say "what wrong with freedom of religion?" well here's one: it preaches inequality that dictates women's inferiority. The fact is that no where in society or history does the idea of women being inferior have a louder voice then from the mouth of religion; specifically Christian biblical fundamentalists. 

"And a man will choose...any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman...Sin began with a woman and thanks to her we all must die" Ecclesiasticus, 25:18, 19 & 33.

In America, religion pays no taxes (which also means their financial records and what they spend their money on goes unchecked), they clearly have a choke-hold on politics, are seen as THE moral framework, and operate with impunity on the world stage. It is unmistakable what women are in Christian doctrine: they are inferior and we are all doomed thanks to their inadequacies. Maybe we should stop the trickery, call a spade a spade, and recognize that the problem is not religious freedom, but religion and it's influence(s) on society. 

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