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In reply to the discussion: Feminists can be Christians, too [View all]darkstar3
(8,763 posts)Let's step away from your myopic worldview for a moment and check on other Christian denominations around the world, and how they treat women.
Catholic: not equal.
Lutheran: not equal. (2 out of 3 synods)
Methodist: not equal.
Presbyterian: not equal.
Baptist: not equal.
Pentecostal: not equal.
Church of Christ: not equal.
Church of the Nazarene: not equal.
Disciples of Christ: not equal.
Christian Scientist: not equal.
Assembly of God: not equal.
Jehovah's Witness: not equal.
Mormon: not equal.
And those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. There are literally thousands of Christian (Protestant) denominations, and by far they do not treat women as equals. And that's just going by denomination alone. If you go by the size of denominations, just the fact that the Catholic church doesn't treat women as equal to men and accounts for more than half of the world's Christians makes the "rule" from my previous post.
Furthermore, one can even make the argument that the entire theology surrounding Christianity and the Bible is misogynistic from the word "In", and therefore it would be a feat of herculean proportions for any Christian church to be a place for feminism.
But maybe it's not all bad...what about other religions? Well...
Judaism: not equal. (Blessed are you...for not having made me a woman.)
Hinduism: not equal.
Buddhism: not equal.
Islam: not equal.
The list goes on.
You do know that it's OK to be the exception to the rule, right?