Religion
In reply to the discussion: What if we took the historicity of sacred scriptures off the table, and focused on their meanings? [View all]LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Given that, my question then must be, by what measurement do we arrive at some judgment of the rightness or wrongness of a given conclusion?
If you have read the books about the bible by feminists, would it be possible to offer a synopsis of the arguments in this forum? It's a conversation I'd be very interested in having.
Even conceding that some women have been able to find affirmation of our gender in the bible, certainly it can be argued that there are some sects/denominations which absolutely rely on biblical authority to justify the subservient role of women in the home, in the church, and in society. For myself, I haven't found the affirmative bits, and rereading without faith is absolutely an exercise in revelation, and I don't mean that in a divinely revealed way.
Since I entered this conversation with a question regarding gender roles, I hesitate to mention other social injustices that can be defended biblically which we have rejected or are in the process of rejecting as our society changes. One can't deny that those exist. Our secular society has rejected many biblical notions because we have deemed them both harmful and immoral. Isn't it, almost by definition, more progressive to remove the "godness" aspect of the culturally frozen ideas that the bible or the torah or the qur'an promulgate?