Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!credmond From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Christianity unfair? Message-ID: <17076@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 08:42:54 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.17076 Posted: Fri Nov 1 08:42:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:12:05 EST References: <725@decwrl.UUCP> <1751@watdcsu.UUCP> <2016@reed.UUCP> <12505@rochester.UUCP> <79@birtch.UUCP> Reply-To: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12 > > Is not Christianity sexist and > unfair to women both in the Bible and in practice? > 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.