Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00246)

Hello Bart,
The Roman catholic church for one has resisted and resisted allowing women the full 
status of Priest or Bishop. 
I think the church had a bit of an effect on culture.

The extension of this mindset is that women are some how lesser than the man, after all 
they were only created as the after thought of god to give man a companion as is stated in 
Genesis when read purely in a dead letter sense.

It seems even absurd to me to have to justify a statement that patriarchal society has 
suppressed the rights of women not allowing an equal sharing of power to that of men.

Do a google search under patriarchy and feminism, have a read.

To deny that women have a soul is an outrageous extension of this mindset and has 
implications that are violent, meaning cable of causing injury to put it lightly.
How do you treat a `soulless' creature ? What implications does this have.

Maybe may comments could have been written more clearly.

Perry




--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Perry Coles wrote:
> > It seems quite amazing to me that any thinking and feeling person 
> > could take seriously any kind of notion of women 'not having a soul'.
> > 
> > This is one of the worst examples of patriarchal culture where women 
> > have been until recently largely excluded from elite male power 
> > structures.
> 
> Can you tell me which patriarchal culture believes this?
> 
> > To even consider this as a possibility is I think an act of violence.
> 
> That is quite possibly the most ill-thought-out statement I have ever 
> read in this group, and if you are familiar with this roup, you would 
> know that's an impressive achievement.
> 
> Bart