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Originally Posted by awareness
Well at least you've got a job you can freely walk away from. But back then women couldn't walk away from lower class citizenship. They were just consigned to childbearing.
But I don't think Christianity is to blame per se. Christianity came up in patriarchal times.
Women weren't considered much back then. That's why none of the Christian books were written by women.
And why didn't Christianity, being followers of Jesus, give women equality?
But then even Jesus didn't ascribe to that. For example, in The Gospel of Thomas, Jesus speaking to his disciples : 114. Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life."
Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven." |
So when you say "Christianity" you are talking about the gospel of Thomas?
Why not talk about the NT?
And yes, I am well aware that women's rights have grown greatly thanks to the NT, but certainly not thanks to anyone else.