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Women and the Bible----Christianity only gives us whores and virgins to identify with.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1450913:MV8xNzQ3NTc0XzI4OTY2NTE2XzU5QzAwRDhD] [quote:Anonymous Coward 6170721:MV8xNzQ3NTc0XzI4OTY2NDU4X0RCRDY4RkI4] [quote:Reikara:MV8xNzQ3NTc0XzI4OTY2MzY2XzEyMENFN0Y5] [quote:SecondPrecession:MV8xNzQ3NTc0XzI4OTY1MDIxX0Y4RjdBNkU5] [quote:Anonymous Coward 2566322:MV8xNzQ3NTc0XzI4OTY0ODg5X0JBNkNGMDhD] [quote:SecondPrecession:MV8xNzQ3NTc0XzI4OTY0ODA2X0UyMEE2NzE1] [quote:Lion of Judah:MV8xNzQ3NTc0XzI4OTY0NTI2X0Q4RTQ5NkM0] You should read about Esther, she was neither. Same with Sarah and many others. [/quote] Miriam, Ruth, Esther, Sarah... Miriam abandoned her baby along the banks of a river. (Let's all be like her). Ruth sleeps with some dude and then hopes that he will "redeem" her through marriage. Nice. So empowering. Esther was part of a Persian harem. HAREM. Sarah was the half-sister of Abraham her husband. Incest. [/quote] Miriam was Moses sister, she looked after him as a babe when their mother sent him down the river to SAVE him from being SLAUGHTERED by pharoah. The book of Esther is controversial and probably could have been left out of the canon. Ruth and Sarah are part of the genealogy that produced Jesus Christ. That seed line HAD to be kept pure. [/quote] Oh, so incest is godly? [/quote] It starts off with so many examples of incest then turns around and slaps you saying it's evil. Just one of the many contradictions of the oh so "perfect" and "pure" text. :cruise: [/quote] Well obviously at the start , incest had to be involved . And the Law had not been given at that time , that came later . Maybe you could learn something from this . http://www.gotquestions.org/incest-in-the-Bible.html [/quote] So incest was okay at first, but it isn't anymore. I think I get it. Incest was needed, justified even for a time because that's how it was meant to be. By the way, it is no longer meant to be even though woman are told to exemplify and identify with characters like Sarah who committed incest with her half-brother. That makes perfect sense. Let's just change our minds about incest when it's really needed, right? [/quote]
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This is what made me walk away from Christianity. There isn't much there for women, it becomes obvious that the bible was used in part to stamp out the feminine, or altogether obscure it.
This is what happened during the Crusades and the Inquisition---murder of those who were herbalists, naturalists and Gnostics.
What does a woman get from the bible aside from a male saviour archetype to which she could never identify--as a woman?
The other alternative is essentially, a whore or a virgin mother. These two are so at odds to one another. it seems like a set-up for failure.
If you're a mother and not a virgin--basically you're a whore or prostitute.
What does Christianity do for you girls? Please don't simply quote bible scripture, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the issue instead--I've read the bible many times over.
The best analogy the bible gives for the feminine is to refer to her as Wisdom in Proverbs.
Other than that, it doesn't leave much to go on for women.
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