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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Sexism and Religion
Message-ID: <1629@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 08:39:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 08:39:33 1985
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In article <547@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:

>None of the monotheistic religions are sexually egalitarian.  Judaism
>incorporates many discriminatory commandments and temple practices.
>Christianity also incorporates discriminatory temple practices and has
>historically been very sexist.  I don't see Moslems as being qualitatively
>different from Jews or Christians in this respect.

Considering that a number of christian denominations have actively promoted
ordination of female clergy, and justified doing so theologically, I don't
see how there is any justification for this monolithic evaluation of
christianity.  There are so few values held in common by the various
christian sects and denominations, in fact, that ANY blanket statement is
probably false.

Charley Wingate


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