[RivCompanions] Hey religion, your misogyny is showing
Pepper Marts
mpm29 at cornell.edu
Thu Jun 26 00:59:00 UTC 2014
Beloved:
A bit from Randal Maurice Jelks' op-ed to *CNN Belief Blog* at
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/25/hey-religion-your-misogyny-is-showing/?hpt=hp_t2
There is a direct link between Kate Kelly, a lifelong member of the
Church of Jesus Christ Latter day-Saints, who was excommunicated on
charges of apostasy, and Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced
to death for her supposed apostasy.
And the link is deeper than the charge of abandoning one's faith.
Patriarchy comes in all forms, but religious patriarchy seems
particularly pernicious because it assumes that male rule is
constituent of God or the gods.
In other words, God or the gods behave like men wrathful,
scornful, jealous, and imperious.
However, this is not why so many people women and men alike are
religious.
Jelks continues by looking at the goodness found in religion, before
turning to how it "can equally be mired in ideologies of exclusion
that can lead to bigotry on many levels, especially toward women."
Shalom,
Pep, with thanks and a tip of the hat to Kurt Wiesner.
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