[Gendergap] The Book of Genesis

[Miguelinito]

What I wanted point out is that one of the causes of the gender gap,
specifically in the United States, is that there is a lot of people
who read the Bible. The Bible is, obviously, sexist, and in fact makes
women in general be submissive. While ideas are separated, they
survive unless they are wrong (that's why Conservapedia was born).
What I propose is to promote catholic women participation, so they
can share their ideas too. Once all ideas are together (catholic and
scientific), the thruth goes without saying, as believing is not in
our human nature, but reasoning. That's my opinion.

P.S: I don't drop my jaw about the gender gap in the US when I see
that women automatically get their surname *replaced* by the married
name.

Sorry for not being expressive enough.

Miguel Ángel

> Um, this thread seems rather off-topic of our specific purpose here...

> Thanks,
> Pharos

> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Marc Riddell
> <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I don't, as a rule, top post. But in this case, since it is a response to
>> both of these messages, it seemed appropriate,
>>
>> There was a time, many, many, many years ago; before there was any defined
>> structured social or political group; there was a female, a male, and their
>> offspring. And the female was, in fact, the center of this grouping. She
>> gave life, kept the "home" and nurtured the offspring on a daily basis.
>> While the male, on the other hand was gone most of the time hunting and
>> gathering. As these individual "family groups" began gathering into tribes,
>>  then groups of tribes into villages etc., etc. to today, these groups soon
>> required some sort of "leadership". That was when the man said to the woman,
>> "You stay at home, honey, and tend to the hearth, and I'll tend to the
>> business outside, as I have always done". That was when the most insidious
>> transfer of importance and power in the history of humankind took place.
>> Pity. Men began making and enforcing the rules, starting and fighting the
>> wars, writing the books deciding, and defining, what deities we must
>> worship, and generally making a worldwide nuisance of himself.
>>
>> Progress?
>>
>> Marc Riddell
>>
>>
>> on 2/12/11 5:47 AM, Oliver Keyes at scire.facias at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to go with "because it's a translation of a translation of a
>> translation of a translation of a [positively recurse 50 times] of a
>> translation of a book written by humans, who are fallible, specifically male
>> humans, in a period where gender equality was occasionally allowing your
>> wife to talk, oh, and there's absolutely no evidence the subject of said
>> book existed in the first place".
>>
>> Satan crops up twice in the bible. In the mean time, Jezebel, Delilah, Eve
>> and almost every other female character who isn't meek and mild as milk is
>> depicted as being single-handedly responsible for the fall of humanity, the
>> betrayal of Sampson, David's inability to keep his man-parts in his
>> underwear, and everything else that goes wrong with the world. It's no
>> surprise equality has taken so long to even appear on the horizon when
>> people are treating guff like this as an infallible or immutable document.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Miguelinito <miguelinito at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of
>> childbearing. So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, ³After I am worn
>> out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?²
>>
>> Then the LORD said to Abraham, ³Why did Sarah laugh and say, ŒWill I really
>> have a child, now that I am old?¹ Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will
>> return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.²
>>
>> Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, ³I did not laugh.²
>>
>> But he said, ³Yes, you did laugh.²
>>
>> There's a couple of questions here:
>>
>> 1) Why Almighty God chose to be a man?
>>
>> 2) Why did Almighty God get angry with the laughter of a simple female
>> mortal? Would he have gotten angry if she, just for *ignorance*, wouldn't
>> have even made herself that question?
>>
>> For all of you who read the Bible, this could be a nice topic for
>> reflection. :)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Miguel Ángel
>>
>>
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 Miguelinito                            mailto:miguelinito at gmail.com