What is being overlooked is that the origins of the anti-woman policies and practices have their origins in the dogma of organized monotheistic religious organizations/cults. Best example is the Catholic Church that has murdered and tortured people for centuries and had a particular fondness for burning women alive on stakes.
What is being overlooked is that the origins of the anti-woman policies and practices have their origins in the dogma of organized monotheistic religious organizations/cults. Best example is the Catholic Church that has murdered and tortured people for centuries and had a particular fondness for burning women alive on stakes.
We look with dismay at the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia and Iran and Afghanistan by Muslim fanatics, but we ignore the Christian sects that are equally dismissive of women's rights. We let a Catholic church that has its priests and bishops notoriously involved in serial child rape be protected at the highest levels of the organization tell us that they have a unique connection to "god" and know what is morally proper.
It comes down to the money that the churches are able to extract from their members and all their dogma is designed to promote and maintain that revenue stream and to increase it by refusing to let people practice birth control. The Catholic church has made using condoms a sin and this has had dire consequences with the spread of HIV in Africa.
The corrupt U.S. Supreme Court is ignoring the separation of church and state that was so very important to the founders of our non-Christian nation and this institution no longer serves a useful purpose and should be disbanded.
I’m not sure religion is being overlooked. It’s certainly part of it for sure. But I think religions, as far as any I’m aware of, are rooted in misogyny and patriarchy. So religion is just one more “layer of proof” the patriarchy holds up to keep all members of society who aren’t in the privileged power positions, in line. Another layer of proof used comes from those who claim they are constitutional originalists. Women had no rights within the original constitution. All rights within the constitution were reserved for white male land owners. In my mind, all of it traces back to patriarchy and misogyny at the root, with everything else, including religions, supporting that root.
What is being overlooked is that the origins of the anti-woman policies and practices have their origins in the dogma of organized monotheistic religious organizations/cults. Best example is the Catholic Church that has murdered and tortured people for centuries and had a particular fondness for burning women alive on stakes.
We look with dismay at the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia and Iran and Afghanistan by Muslim fanatics, but we ignore the Christian sects that are equally dismissive of women's rights. We let a Catholic church that has its priests and bishops notoriously involved in serial child rape be protected at the highest levels of the organization tell us that they have a unique connection to "god" and know what is morally proper.
It comes down to the money that the churches are able to extract from their members and all their dogma is designed to promote and maintain that revenue stream and to increase it by refusing to let people practice birth control. The Catholic church has made using condoms a sin and this has had dire consequences with the spread of HIV in Africa.
The corrupt U.S. Supreme Court is ignoring the separation of church and state that was so very important to the founders of our non-Christian nation and this institution no longer serves a useful purpose and should be disbanded.
I’m not sure religion is being overlooked. It’s certainly part of it for sure. But I think religions, as far as any I’m aware of, are rooted in misogyny and patriarchy. So religion is just one more “layer of proof” the patriarchy holds up to keep all members of society who aren’t in the privileged power positions, in line. Another layer of proof used comes from those who claim they are constitutional originalists. Women had no rights within the original constitution. All rights within the constitution were reserved for white male land owners. In my mind, all of it traces back to patriarchy and misogyny at the root, with everything else, including religions, supporting that root.