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From: bweiss@cs.arizona.EDU (Beth Weiss)
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Subject: Re: Newspaper Article
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Date: 17 Oct 90 21:40:39 GMT
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> morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.EDU (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:
>> Most damning, however, is that god consistently prefers to talk to
>> men. All prophets are male, as is Christ. Women are purely auxiliary,
>> as far as god is concerned.

Is it true that god prefers to talk to men, or is it true that only
men were listened to at that time, and so times god talked to women
weren't recorded?  Certainly, Christ is male.  All the _published_
prophets are male.  But I don't think that means women are purely
auxiliary.

If you view the Bible as the true word of god, then certainly you
have to assume that god talks primarily to men.  However, a theist who
views the Bible as a collection of people's views of the word of god
might well wonder if the literate men may have modified any section
that referred to (or should have referred to) women.

--beth
bweiss@cs.arizona.edu