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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this eqation? (Paul=Jesus)
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 09:14:54 EST
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> I constantly see people using the writings of Paul to support or
> attack a stand.  This has always bothered me because there are some
> things in Paul's writings that I can't accept.  Some even seem to
> contradict the words of Jesus in the Gospels. 

	This has been one of my great arguments with Catholicism and
with Christianity in general, that Pauline doctrine has wrongly influenced
and warped the nature of the beliefs expounded by the man Jesus, called
Christ. This seems to be especially so in the way that women have been
treated by the Church - Paul seems to have been quite a misogynist, and
that carried over strongly into "official" Church policy and teaching.
Reading the gospels, one sees that Jesus treated women on an equal footing
with men, and encouraged them, but one sees much the opposite from Paul,
who seems to have had enormous hangups about sex and women as the
corrupters of men. Conversely, in the Gnostic gospels, one sees that women
were very active in sections of the early church, as priests and communicants.
and leaders of religious communities. This was all later vigorously suppressed
by that branch of the church that finally became the "establishment".

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jcpatilla

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