The 1920's War Against Women May be Returning

The first book ever written about the war  against women in the 1920's has just been published. The book chronicles the life of a woman accused and jailed for spreading a sexually transmitted disease. So virulent was the hatred of women they were picked up for acting flirtatiously or for simply being a waitress.

There was also an effort to silence women who joined a peace movement in the 1920's. After the First World War there was much sentiment in favor of arming the country. Conventional wisdom was that a big military would prevent another war. Women who organized to promote negotiation were hounded and criticized.

In the Christian world, the war against women started in the Bible. Eve encouraged Adam to eat the forbidden apple. This, even though the talking snake warned her not to. So it was Eve, and by default all women, who are responsible for the "original sin" and the wrath of God.

It is not surprising that those who made up the stories in the Bible had Jesus with no female disciples. That is used to justify banning women from the priesthood in Catholicism and position of pastor in several branches of Protestantism. "Why on earth would we allow women to be clergy when it is so clear ancient authors of the Bible did not want them there?" is the lesson.

With the perceived political success of demonizing people of color and emigrants, we can expect to see more of that. The large number of women elected to public office opens the door to a perceived threat to males.

Don't be surprised to see women demonized for political purposes in the coming years.

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  1. UnknownNovember 8, 2018 at 7:06 PM

    I recently finished a college textbook by Bart Ehrman. He makes a convincing case that most of the really anti women stuff in the Bible was written by people pretending to be folks such as the apostle paul. He shows that there is a wide divergence between what was actually written by folks like the apostle Paul and Jesus and those that wrote forgeries that were accepted in the Bible canon.

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    1. Jon LindgrenNovember 9, 2018 at 8:19 PM

      Unknown--Thanks for the comment. I apologize for being slow in getting it up on the screen. I have several Bart Ehrman books and agree with you he makes a good case the many books in the Bible are written by impostors.

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