Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Do you agree, or disagree, with this statement? [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(105,678 posts)I think that claim is wrong - first, it's treating 'Christian' and 'religious' as the same thing, when clearly they're not - and the most extreme religions enforce the worst sexism and discrimination that any culture has seen (eg the Taliban). Secondly, there's plenty of misogyny and discrimination in many Christian sects (eg Catholicism). But I don't think it's talking about "some inherently soul-bettering property"; I think it's saying that the principles by which Christians are meant to live ought to put bounds on the harm that a sexist man could do to a woman. I would say that, in practice, these bounds hardly ever stop a sexist, however Christian he thinks he is.
But it is "about atheist men who think they're superior to women"; the closing sentence is "When a man frees himself from false beliefs, he has to get rid also of the false belief in male superiority." It is not about all atheist men.