World Religions

When we were talking about women in Christianity, I had what you could call an epiphany of sorts. I realized that if Jesus, the founder of the whole religion Christianity, held “radical” beliefs that women were equal to men, then how did the religion revert back to the traditional belief that women were worse? Mr. Smart explained this with since it was the norm in Roman society to be patriarchal, then when Chritianity became Roman, it was became more Roman in itself. I thought this was ironic, in that they betrayed their messiah’s beliefs in certain aspects, simply to keep on living their lives the way they did. It would have been difficult, so I think they played a fun little trick on people. Most likely women still could not read, due to lack of education, so the rulers, not wanting to be usurped by some woman, interpreted the bible for them. They made the women trust them, and said Jesus kept with basic Roman Traditions. This allowed them to keep them down indefinitely, by not teaching them to read, and earning their trust. I guess their is truth to the saying knowledge is power. Its amazing to what length people will go to stop someone else from achieving sucess.

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