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Thread #87904   Message #1648036
Posted By: frogprince
13-Jan-06 - 03:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Religion=good folk doing bad things?
Subject: RE: BS: Religion=good folk doing bad things?
ALL the big religions today are a club for men to use like club to hit women. Only the degree of female repression varies.

With few exceptions I can say if you are a member of a major religion you are participating in the denigration of half the population from the start.


That this is still far too widespread, is patently obvious. But what constitutes a "few exceptions"? Millions of American protestants belong to churchs with policies which place no barriers whatever to keep women from the clergy, including higher level leadership; one of these female clergy may face difficulty from individuals with biases against feminine leadership, but it is in no way supported by church policy. (I specify American protestants only because I don't feel qualified to speak for others worldwide, not from any assumption that Americans stand apart and above morally).
Regretably, many of these churchs still stand firmly for the repression of gay people; but in my experience this bias is applied equally against male and female.