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Old 05-28-2010, 01:43 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
And I know I'm opening a whole new can of hornets, and I swear that I don't deliberately try to make ripples, but I view religion to be part of the problem with the treatment of women and girls, not part of the solution. Setting aside the obvious issues in Islamic countries since we are talking about the US, my religious background was from a Southern Baptist area of the country-- and with Southern Baptists, the lesser status of women is codified in their official tenants of core beliefs:

http://atheism.about.com/od/baptists...ptistwomen.htm

And I recall this thread that I saw a while back which truly saddened me-- seeing this girl brainwashed into submission and treatment as less of a person-- by the official policy of her religious sect.

http://www.livingwaterke.com/2009/08...ver-their.html

And this story that I saw earlier today:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100528/...urch_rape_case

If you want a solution to mistreatment of girls and women, Christianity is NOT the place to look.
Alright, those are extreme cases, but your not wrong in your view point (IMO) to state that the solution does not lie with religion. I did not say that it did at all, in fact I was trying to distance this from religion entirely. If you'd like to PM me, I've no problem discussing with you the issues of various sects of Christianity.
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