Sexism
I am set comfortably in my new home. All heavy material things you need to exist are set in our flat too. I can enjoy reading and writing again : ) I was dragged in. Totally absorbed by one brave bishop from New York:
“Yahweh was a solitary male god who did not need a female partner to create life. He created instead by speaking the Word. His Spirit was the essential principle of life itself. Baal worship, on other hand, was intensely sexual, with the sexual power of reproduction honoured as the source of life” (p. 120). Bible appears to be a never-ending struggle to enslave Mother Nature, to kill a worship of goddess.
Marriage seems to be more a contract upon which property of male dominant might be passed forth on next generation. Wife as a subhuman is treated by patriarchal tradition more as a possession. Possession, what Jewish kings used to share between each other. Virginity is important part of contract because it is proving the quality of the “product”. But what if possession rebels… “A woman who grabs a man by his private parts shall have her hand cut off” (Bible, Deut. 25).
Times are changing luckily. Our global concern about climate change is a beautiful example of nations coming out of “paternal patterns”. We are all interdependent. Male arrogance and dominance proved its destructive power on nature around us. I wish that one day all four wheeled giant cars from my street will be replaced by more reasonable vehicles. Maybe it is time to bike around?
hmmm... Bishop Shelby Spong brave? To publish a book saying what most people in this day and age would agree with?
ReplyDeleteIt could be brave, but I think the real courage was shown in the first century by a Galilean Jew who wrote, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." When the Apostle Paul wrote, this kind of equality (not just between the sexes, but between all humans) was unheard of. It was so revolutionary that it has taken approx 2000 years to begin to filter through and be taken seriously!