Christianity is Losing Women: It Doesn't Care



Women are dropping out of the faith rapidly. Men between 18 and 25 are dropping out but it is claimed there has been an uptick in young single men attending church. Men run the faith for the most part. Rules and beliefs come largely, in some branches exclusively, from men, not women. Those Christians who analyze the faith recognize that women are not treated as equals in the church while treated as equals everywhere else in their lives. Yet, the idea persists that women got their wrong ideas from the women's lib and Me-Too movements. 

The idea that women should be treated as equals in the faith did not come from "women's lib" or the "me-too" political activities. It came from parents telling their daughters they can do whatever they have a passion to do. If it is to be the boss, that's what girls will do when they grow into women. That's what boys have always done, why not girls? 

It is really hard to understand religious leaders, men and women, who have positions of responsibility in a branch think gender inequality is not a problem. The faith once had a huge portion that believed black people were inferior. Denominations in the South held onto this like it they were under the direction of God. How foolish this now looks to nearly everyone across the country. It seems clear to me any branch of the faith that does not yield on discrimination against women will not exist in the generation born after 2030. 

Some of the denominations that preach men only as preachers do try to hide this. I would guess there are few sermons delivered preaching the superiority of men. Yet, denominations that discriminate, including the Catholic denomination, do not change. Those men who run the faith just do not care about the faith's future.

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