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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Christianity unfair?
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 08:42:54 EST
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> Is not Christianity sexist and
> unfair to women both in the Bible and in practice?
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No, actually, it isn't.  In practice, frequently, yes -- less so nowadays
than it used to be, I think.  In the Bible, indeed not; in fact one
of the characteristics which made Jesus spectacularly different from
his contemporaries, and unpopular to the point of being executed after
a kangaroo trial, was that he hung around with women and spoke to them
as equals, in a society in which women rated with dogs, slaves and
foreigners.