Obama say it isnt so!

[Danzig]

some christian religions are as guilty as other, supposedly more zealous, religions as far as women and being treated as second class. just a month or so ago a church fired a woman who had taught bible study for years and years, due to the text in the bible regarding women being 'over' men. and of course catholics whose hierarchy refuses to even discuss women being priests....
but then, it's always been my contention that the bible was written, or translated, by wealthy, poweful men, and has been used to keep them so, and keep women and 'peasant's' down. the argument for years back hundreds of years ago was that if god wanted you to be rich, you'd have been born to a rich family--that attempts at improvement were against what god wanted! that if god wanted a woman to be in power, well, she'd have been born a man! and of course that was why the bible was not allowed to be printed in the language that the masses could read, they might try to figure things out for themselves.
but i think things are improving, slowly in some places, more rapidly in others. but there is still a long way to go.