Forget Natural Law: The Most Lavish Tomb Ever Found Honored a Woman


Lots of Christianity preaches specific rolls for men and women. The rules were written by men so, as we would expect, women come in at a lower level. While religions and individuals can have their opinions on such a thing, it is a mistake to claim the lower status of women is something that has always been or is in some way a natural or inevitable product of all human experience. 

Tangible evidence that women are not "naturally" ranked lower than men can be seen in a tomb discovered in the 1920's. Archeologists agree it is the most elaborate, expensive and honor-projecting tomb ever found. It dates back to 4,500 BCE. The female corpse is bejeweled to the max. 

This tomb makes a mockery of the Catholic notion women and men are "complimentary." Women make a powerful contribution, this line of thought promotes, by their ability to give birth while men by nature make the money and rule the household. The tomb illustrates the nature of humans makes no such rule. To describe these roles as built into the human's nature is religious bull $hit. Thousands of years before Christian males made up second-place rules for women, women ruled. 

Human nature being what it is, it would be a good guess that women like the super wealth and powerful corpse belittled and treated men as second class. Today there are men complaining about the success of women. It is not right for women to get opportunities not available to men. The issue here is that whatever religion claims about the "natural" status of women versus men is not "natural" or "natural law." It was made up.

Of course, projecting power to the female corpse buried with all indications of wealth and power involves some assumptions on our part. The attributes we attribute to the corpse came from written information and discoveries of other societies and sites. There may be some other explanation for the gold and jewels buried with the body. Other anthropological studies have shown women were the most powerful gender in various societies. 

If you hear it is "natural" for men to rule women, label it myth.

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  1. tsmApril 26, 2023 at 1:52 PM

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  2. JonApril 26, 2023 at 4:47 PM

    tsm "..that the Catholic middle ages produced a multitude of female saints.."

    And the men who named them turned over administrative and theological powers to these women?? Tell me when this happened.

    "pregnant mamals are not much good on the hunt..males are naturally physically stornger than women..."

    We've heard all that nonsense here before. In "natural law" men do one kind of work, women another. Therefore, women must not be clergy. That dog won't hunt.

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  3. tsmApril 26, 2023 at 6:27 PM

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    1. JonApril 27, 2023 at 6:59 AM

      tsm "as to the church's stand on women's clergy it has little to do with the equality of women."

      Correct. It's purpose is INequal treatment of women.

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