Women and Black People
It dawned on me the other day that for 1800 years after jesus, women were property and black people were slaves.
If you give that any serious thought, you realize, 1800 years after Jesus, women were allowed to be the property of a man and slavery was encouraged.
And if you read your bible you’ll see that it was not only allowed, but encouraged. These are the bibles teachings.
My would women and black people even chose to believe in a God that would allow them to be viewed as worth so little?
I think the answer is education. We still have people on the Earth today that can’t read, how many slaves do you think could read?
What did a slave who could read think, when he saw in his bible that slavery was encouraged? I would imagine so few slaves could read that any real knowledge of what the bible says, was simply passed on from other people. And I’m certain they only heard the parts that eased their minds.
What about women? 150 years ago my wife would be my property, like my bicycle. The bible says that women are property of men and women lived that life.
Here’s my point. If it weren’t for a few enlightened people in power 150 years ago, women would still be property and black people would still be slaves. This was not the work of God, Jesus or women and black people fighting for rights, but a few people who saw faults in the way humans treat humans.
Why would a black person pray to a God that encourage the slavery of their ancestors for 1800 years after Jesus?
Why would women, who were told by the bible, that they were the property of men, want to have anything to do with the God that encouraged this behavior?
If it wasn’t for these few enlightened people in power who changed the rules about women and black people, you wouldn’t be able to spend your Sundays worshipping a God that allows you to be property. If you’re a women, in an Arab country reading this today, you are the property of a man. Because they still take those damn holy books literally.
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March 4th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I don’t think God “encourages” slavery or people as property. He created women to be man’s partner, to walk through life with him as a single unit. Man’s own fall caused the relational mess with viewing others as possessions. In a society where women were not looked at as equals, God spoke directly to women…Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary. He used a prostitute to save His followers from death. He clearly gave credit to women in the lineage of Jesus in a culture where lineage was seen through fathers. God deliberately used people in society who might not be accepted whether they be women or dishonest tax collectors or something else to show that He loves and accepts all. Maybe especially the imperfect.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Thanks for the comment Christian woman. The Bible can easy be interpreted many different ways. I, however, am certain according to the Bible that women are inferior and property of men, as are slaves. An excellent resource to look up passages is http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
We could read the same passage and get a different meaning, but it’s very clear to me that the Bible thinks very little of women.
In the end it doesn’t matter anyway since the Bible was written by men not God, which makes you right all along.
March 9th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Here is an article listing the 10 worst countries to be a woman.
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/326354
May 28th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Just a note: The Bible was written by God through the inspiration of prophets. He ‘wrote’ it, by using them to put it on paper.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Mike, then god is a moron. God doesn’t know the different between a bird and a mammal.
Men wrote the bible completely on their own without the help of supernatural beings.