New Statesman Johann HariAuthors Benson and Stangroom dismantle the logic of those who cite religion to justify the perpetuation of misogynistic abuses around the globe.
After all the arguments for subordinating women have been shown to be self-serving lies, what are misogynists left with? They have only one feeble argument that is still deferred to and shown undeserving respect across the world, even by people who should know better: “God told me to. I have to treat women as lesser beings, because it is inscribed in my Holy Book.”
Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom are the editors of Butterflies and Wheels, the best atheist site on the web. In Does God Hate Women? they forensically dismantle the last respectable misogyny. They argue: “What would otherwise look like stark bullying is very often made respectable and holy by a putative religious law or aphorism or scriptural quotation . . . They worship a God who is a male who gangs up with other males against women. They worship a thug.”
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If God is Love, then He couldn't possibly hate women. But since there is no God, wherefore cometh the hate? From the hearts of ignorant, macho men, of course. Well ladies, it IS your fault. After all, you are the ones with the vaginas. How can a man resist the corrupting influences of lust except through denial of his own weakness, and repressing those who would reveal it? The cards were stacked against you from day one, (or was it the eighth?), being portrayed as evil seductress, herself weak-willed and dim witted.
ReplyDeleteBut the authors of these "holy" texts were assuredly men, who believed the world was flat and disease came from demons and so they invented a God of retribution to gain control of the masses. But you have already known this all along, at least in your heart of hearts.
It isn’t great,
ReplyDeleteBeing an object of hate,
But what can we do?
(Knowing not whom they pursue!)
For the object of hate,
Isn’t the prime tell,
It’s the haters always,
Who explain themselves.
Haters’ isolation,
And haters’ ignorance,
Is the Alpha Omega,
Of their primordial dance.
They mustn’t know,
Whom they hate,
Might have more,
In heart and pate.
Haters can’t be ever,
Ever proved wrong,
Ignorant and isolated,
They remain strong.
What they don’t know, they fear,
(Unaware it’s love they lack!)
What they fear, they hate,
What they hate, they attack.
They simply hate you,
For not being them,
But we love ‘em anywho,
It’s God’s stratagem.
Robert Winkler Burke
circe -
ReplyDeleteIn Greek mythology, Circe (pronounced /ˈsɜrsiː/; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē "falcon") is a queen goddess (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress) living on the island of Aeaea.
In Homer's Odyssey, Circe is described as living in a mansion that stands in the middle of a clearing in a dense wood. Around the house prowled lions and wolves, the drugged victims of her magic; they were not dangerous, and fawned on all newcomers. Circe worked at a huge loom. She invited Odysseus' crew to a feast, the food laced with one of her magical potions, and she turned them all into pigs with a wand after they gorged themselves on it.
She was known as "Mother Circe," and her worship was brought to medieval Scotland, in whose language Circe became "Kirk."
kirk -
c.1200, northern England and Scot. dial. form of church, from O.N. kirkja "church," from O.E. cirice (see church).
The Scottish word "Kirk" becomes "Church" in English.
church -
O.E. cirice "church," from W.Gmc. *kirika, from Gk. kyriake (oikia) "Lord's (house)," from kyrios "ruler, lord." For vowel evolution, see bury. Gk. kyriakon (adj.) "of the Lord" was used of houses of Christian worship since c.300, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ekklesia or basilike. An example of the direct Gk.-to-Gmc. progress of many Christian words, via the Goths; it was probably used by W.Gmc. people in their pre-Christian period. Also picked up by Slavic, via Gmc. (cf. O.Slav. criky, Rus. cerkov). Romance and Celtic languages use variants of L. ecclesia. bef. 900; ME chir(i)che, OE cir(i)ce ≪ Gk kȳri(a)kón (dôma) the Lord's (house), neut. of kȳriakós of the master
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