Women Religion

Islam has been labeled the religion that oppress women. I decided to look at Islamic cousin Christianity and this is what I found:

I Corinthians 14:34-35 says “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”

I Timothy 2:11-14 carries the same thought and even points out, despite the fact that they both sinned, that it was the woman who was deceived. “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”

Numbers chapter 30 outlines the law of vows. The chapter basically says that a daughter’s vow could be voided by her father and wives vows could be voided by their husbands. Verse 13 says “Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.” Basically, this law was established because women were not considered competent enough to make a vow or a contract, just as minor children are not legally bound to contracts in the United States today.

Numbers chapter 5 describes a ritual used when a man was suspicious of his wife to see if she had been unfaithful. The jealous husband brought his wife before the priest with a specially prepared offering. The priest made her drink a mixture called “the bitter water that causeth the curse” (verse 18), which contained, among other things, dust from the tabernacle floor. If she was innocent the drink would cause no harm, but “if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people” (verse 27).So much for trust in a marriage. If you think she may be unfaithful, make her drink the bitter water that causes the curse. What else could you do, take a woman’s word for it? Incidentally, this didn’t work the other way around. Women with cheating husbands had no redress.

Just how low was a woman’s position in the culture from which the Bible was born? Judges chapter 9 gives us some indication. In verse 52-54 we read about the dying request of Abimelech. “And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought hard against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. And a certain woman cast a piece of millstone upon Abimelechs head, and all to brake (sic) his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men may not say of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through and he died.”

I hope people will realize that it is not God that dictates the status of a woman but the society that they are in. Both religions have some jacked up views towards women. Me I claim is Islam as my chosen path but I am more a mystic so I am not welcome with open arms. Does that offend me... Naw!!! Because my spiritual relationship is not with mere mortals but with Great Islam has been labeled the religion that oppress women. I decided to look at Islams cousin Christianity and this is what I found:

I Corinthians 14:34-35 says “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.”

I Timothy 2:11-14 carries the same thought and even points out, despite the fact that they both sinned, that it was the woman who was deceived. “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”

Numbers chapter 30 outlines the law of vows. The chapter basically says that a daughter’s vow could be voided by her father and wives vows could be voided by their husbands. Verse 13 says “Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.” Basically, this law was established because women were not considered competent enough to make a vow or a contract, just as minor children are not legally bound to contracts in the United States today.

Numbers chapter 5 describes a ritual used when a man was suspicious of his wife to see if she had been unfaithful. The jealous husband brought his wife before the priest with a specially prepared offering. The priest made her drink a mixture called “the bitter water that causeth the curse” (verse 18), which contained, among other things, dust from the tabernacle floor. If she was innocent the drink would cause no harm, but “if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people” (verse 27).So much for trust in a marriage. If you think she may be unfaithful, make her drink the bitter water that causes the curse. What else could you do, take a woman’s word for it? Incidentally, this didn’t work the other way around. Women with cheating husbands had no redress.

Just how low was a woman’s position in the culture from which the Bible was born? Judges chapter 9 gives us some indication. In verse 52-54 we read about the dying request of Abimelech. “And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought hard against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. And a certain woman cast a piece of millstone upon Abimelechs head, and all to brake (sic) his skull. Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men may not say of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through and he died.”

I hope people will realize that it is not God that dictates the status of a woman but the society that they are in. Both religions have some jacked up views towards women. Me I claim is Islam as my chosen path but I am more a mystic so I am not welcome with open arms. Does that offend me... Naw!!! Because my spiritual relationship is not with mere mortals but with the true Great Architect of the Universe. If people feathers are ruffled because of this post or any others that I have done get over it the movie is bigger than both of us and until we realize that ,we will costantly be typed cast by the writters on the "Hill".