The New Path for Women



Women are leaving their Christian churches in large numbers. Why wouldn't they? They have been treated as second class for centuries. Where they are going we cannot be certain.

An "answer" came on line today. Christians will argue women are treated as equals to men in the faith. There do not explanations of how to reconcile with the Bible. For example, why did the story tellers in Genesis start the story of humans with God making Adam from clay (and giving him life by blowing into is nostrils)? That is, if Adam and Eve were "equals," God would have made each out of clay. I guess God was short on time, flipped a coin and men won. Then, as I enjoy writing about periodically, it was Eve, not Adam, who first put a finger in God's eye and ate the apple. They she persuaded the less intelligent Adam to eat it which, not understanding the situation, ate the apple. They did not "both sin" as some Christians claim. One sinned then persuaded the other. Women bad.

Out of the Eve committing the original sin came women in second place, at least in recent centuries. There is some evidence women had a stronger, perhaps equal, place of authority in Christianity a few centuries ago. They were put in on the "B" team by men and have remained there ever since.

I wish all these women would become atheists or not involved in any kind of religion. While there will be many who are religious, it is likely many will move to some other kind of invisible spiritual life. I have no problem with that if whatever their invisible world is it does not affect government nor my world.  

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