We Are Only Hurting Ourselves [View all]

[angrychair]

I constantly see a lot of heavy religious influence in politics. It's everywhere. From our money to opening political meetings with a prayer. To a politicians invoking a god's blessing at the end of a speech.
The problems with this are many. The one I want to focus on here is how it influences our treatment of women. From healthcare to voting, women have had to fight for every inch of ground and it has never been easy. To be completely blunt we all know it has everything to do with religion. Despite everything Black folk went through, even Black men got the right to vote, at least on paper, before Black women. If we are being blunt here, the root of discrimination, in all its forms, is in religion.

If it's the US or Afghanistan or any religiously fundamentalist country (Christian or Islam or Jewish), I've never understood where so much hate for women comes from. If a religion teaches you that a woman is lesser that you. Subservient to you. Weak. Stupid. Inferior. That they have less rights than you as a man. That religion is poison. It is antithetical to the survival of the human race. We are equal. If we are to survive. To thrive. We must set aside this nonsense. This poison. We must.