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Originally Posted by Danzig
why do women willingly support most religions? is it support, or are they hoping to change it? all religions have their 'good' side, but they all have a dark side as well. religion has a tendency to try to put women in their place. now, not all still have the sheer violence you see in the extreme forms of islam, but it preaches inequality all the same.
there are still parts of india where the widow is thrown, alive, onto her late husbands funeral pyre. it's tradition you see. she's just one more of his possessions that needs to travel to the other side with him...
catholics-no women need apply. baptists-women must submit to their husbands. oh, teaching bible school? nope, bible says only men can do that, you're fired.
etc, etc, etc
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Yeah I get that. Good points. I never read that as literally as others though - I mean "submit to your husband" I always read more along the lines that when a decision needs to be made, in order to avoid deadlock, after discussion, one party should be able to make that decision. And that party should absolutely be taking the other's input seriously into account. It could the reverse where the wife is the more effective decision maker. Or, as many couples do, there is a loose division of responsibility based on expertise.
Back to the point - if one gets 90 lashes for being critical or disagreeing with the government, where is the threshold for capital punishment? Jaywalking? They needn't even specify it as such - how many lashes would be fatal? 300? 400?