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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,net.auto
Subject: Christians mostly women
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Date: Sat, 27-Sep-86 18:59:36 EDT
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In article <784@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>These are obviously Christian women.  The reason that you see more women
>than men driving like this is that women are increasingly outnumbering
>men as active, practicing members of most Christian sects, at least in 
>the US today.
>

Good grief.  Leaving aside the question of driving habits (which is
where this exchange started), let me point out that Christianity has
ALWAYS been a female-dominated religion.  Rather odd, when you think
what certain branches of so-called Christianity have done to women,
but it's true: virtually all churches in virtually all centuries have
been full of women worshippers while the men went elsewhere or stayed
home.   

Some interesting speculations might be made (and probably have been)
about the emotional appeal that Christianity has had for women.  One
suggestion I heard recently was that for many, many women, God "the
Father" has been the ONLY reliable, loving male figure in their lives.
No wonder that so much of the resistance to "liberation language" and
female images for God now comes from women, especially older women!

Disclaimer: I am a Christian and a male.