Comments on: Rejecting Christianity helped me realize my independence http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/ Resources for skeptical, de-converting, or former Christians...... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rebecca Koval http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-17701 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:14:17 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-17701 Thank you for writing this! I was raised very similarly. It is disgusting to think that just because I was a girl, I was expected to be “less than.” I left my Christian mother’s home at age 15 and five years later I still have nothing to do with her. Rejecting her and the beliefs that she instilled in me was the most freeing, empowering thing I have ever done in my life.

Let’s hope that more people start questioning sexism within the church!

]]> By: stellar1 http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-933 Tue, 01 May 2007 14:36:49 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-933 Thanks for reminding me of Stanton’s writings, Karen. I think I’ll go dig her book out of my library and browse through it for a while.

-Stellar1

]]> By: Karen http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-922 Tue, 01 May 2007 00:26:08 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-922 Women of previous generations had no such convenience. They were prisoners of religion and sexism. They were subjected to overall marginalisation on every level of society, politics and religion every minute of every day of their lives.

Some of the most powerful rants against Christianity I’ve ever read come from early feminists and suffragists. It is completely unbelievable to me when I recall that not even a century has passed since women in the U.S. have had the right to vote!

Wow! Talk about having to completely subordinate oneself to males. Their world was so terribly sexist. No wonder Elizabeth Cady Stanton was so pissed! ;-)

She wrote, “When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of ‘Thus sayeth the Lord.’”

]]> By: stellar1 http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-914 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:41:10 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-914 Justin,

I think it is difficult to move beyond the social views in which a person may disagree when they are surrounded by others who reaffirm that view consistently.

I had it easier than women born in the many generations before me because I knew that society as a whole in America was coming to terms with the equal status of the two sexes. Therefore, it was easier to simply walk away from the religious sexism and embrace a secular equality.

Women of previous generations had no such convenience. They were prisoners of religion and sexism. They were subjected to overall marginalisation on every level of society, politics and religion every minute of every day of their lives.

]]> By: Justin http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-907 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:26:56 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-907 I understand your feelings about the message of woman subordinance to men in the Bible. It is important to remember, however, that the Bible contains universal truths (many of which found in the New Testament) that superceed the old law.

Anyway, I’m surprised that in your upbringing you didn’t gravitate towards Luke (which scholars have identified as the gospel for the marginalized people of society at the time of the book). In other words, it was written for gentiles, and woman (hense the geneology of Jesus tracked through the mother!…never done in those days – a very progressive idealology)

have a good one!

http://politicsandreligion.wordpress.com

]]> By: stellar1 http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-899 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:08:44 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-899 Hee, hee Rebecca. That’s funny. :)

]]> By: Rebecca http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-894 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:33:54 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/rejecting-christianity-helped-me-realize-my-independence/#comment-894 We are indeed beautiful. From one agnostic atheist to another all I can say is, Amen! :-)

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