From the beginning of time men have tried to dominate women. Man has used a variety of techniques to accomplish this task including physical power, withholding education, politics, sex, and even religion. The article for today, Male-Chauvinist Religion, is an insightful look at inequality and how religion is used as tool of oppression throughout the world. Deborah Mathieu shows how three major religions illustrate in the texts and the teachings that women are the inferior gender.
To support her claims in this article that god is chauvinist, the author had to look no further than the texts themselves. The religions she refers to, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, all have passages that speak of the woman serving the man in some way. They also all refer to their god as “father” and of course the default p
ronoun is male. These religions base their beliefs that the male is superior to the female on passages that state man was created in god’s image. Taken literally this alone is justification for male dominance. Christianity goes as far to say that the woman corrupting the man was the reason mankind was cast out of paradise.
In conclusion I think this article has some valid points on the use of religion in relation to power. These texts read literally can be a stumbling block in the relationship dynamics of men and women. It has been a long, difficult fight to gain the equality that women deserve. Society has evolved slowly in this area but I’m sure progress is the only option.
The author makes some valid points of how religion can be a powerful tool to advance mans agenda over women. Any of these texts taken literally can
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