In the Religion, Blaming Women Has Been Good for Business
The all-male clergy of the Catholic denomination has had a long-standing support. It's world-wide size is astounding. The same is true for the Southern Baptist Convention. It is the largest Protestant denomination. Smaller ones like Lutheran Missouri Synod was once big. When women became more powerful and less cooperative on taking the Number 2 spot, these denominations needed to do a 180. Because they did not, they are between a rock and a hard place. I don't need to tell readers Genesis told us Eve was the cause of The Original Sin. While it is said Jesus and Christianity are more equality owning than other religions, that does not forgive the Jesus character in the Bible from scolding his mother, telling his disciples to leave their wives and follow him around or having only guys on his team. Paul, like Jesus, was off and on about decent treatment of women. Sometimes leaders in the faith proclaim they know "what it's all about." That is, they "know" ...