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To: gondramB

“...To be fair it took well over 1,000 years after Jesus for these types of attitudes to go away in Christian areas.”

Christians always had scripture with the most positive portrayals of women; Ruth, Ester, Mary, and Christ’s loving admonition of the woman sinner. Show me in 400 AD nominally Christian Rome where women were treated as bad as they are in Yemen today.


45 posted on 01/03/2008 11:23:34 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

>>Christians always had scripture with the most positive portrayals of women; Ruth, Ester, Mary, and Christ’s loving admonition of the woman sinner. Show me in 400 AD nominally Christian Rome where women were treated as bad as they are in Yemen today.<<

1000 years after that women were still subject to their husbands or older brothers. They didn’t get to vote in most countries for well over a 1000 years. They couldn’t hold most jobs and in many cases all the property went directly to the son leaving the daughters with nothing except being dependent on the brothers.

Some of the things done to “upity” women in Christian nations have been horrific.

In my lifetime, in my state of Georgia, rights were greatly reduced for women, with the husband being legally the head of household.


48 posted on 01/03/2008 11:32:41 AM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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