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From: watson@spock.UUCP (Steve Watson)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Women and Religion
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Date: 19 Oct 90 13:56:31 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.010243.22997@nntp-server.caltech.edu> morphy@truebalt.cco.caltech.edu (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:
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>[Consider following up to talk.religion.misc if you want to debate the
>theological questions.                                    - MHN]
Or soc.religion.christian (moderated).

..mostly deleted...
>
>Hope for what? What exactly is it that we're getting for all these contortions?

Depends on what you want: those (like JMM) who, for their own reasons, are not
adherents of Jewish/Christian/Islamic faiths need not concern themselves with
reconciling their feminism with their faith.  Those (like myself) who are
religious, do need to: the choice to believe (and what to believe)
may have been made upon criteria not related to gender issues, and we
are then obliged to try and reconcile (for honesty's sake) things which
may conflict with each other, but which are both important to us.

And BTW, anything a given person might say on the subject must be understood
as applying mainly (possibly exclusively) to their own religious association.
E.g., I have nothing to say about feminism vis-a-vis Judaism or Islam,
and very little regarding Catholicism.



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