I only knew of Christianaity and Jewish Adam and Eve story. I don't view it the way you say it.
You left out the creation of man and woman from Genesis 2. I can explain further, but basically, the woman was made from the man and is the emotional portion of him. she was designed that way... I'm am assuming... to bond with children and nurture them.
She is the more emotional being and thus was easier to decieve so the serpent deceived her. The man was weak and submitted to her and did what she said... and thus the reason women don't like emotionally weak men... it leads to destruction. The man is supposed to protect the more emotional one from being baited, and lured in, not give in. Thus the Greek view is actually sound they need protected.
I don't view it as the woman is evil, both man and woman are corrupted. A world filled with men would not be pure in any sense.
To me the Biblical version is a sold description of how we are designed, what went wrong and how to fix it.
hope you can read my non dislexic writing...0 0 0 0Many religions have claimed to be the first but have copied the Bible, one of those being Islam. Zoroastrianism, which claims to be the oldest religion in the world also copied the Bible. There's an article about how Zoroastrian priests in the 1600s saw how popular Christianity was growing in Europe, so they decided to tweak their Zoroastrian texts a bit to reflect the Bible so more people would be interested in Zoroastrianism.
Having said that, most people perceive the story of Adam and Eve as a slight towards women just because the female messed up first. If it was actually Adam who messed up first, none of us would really be thinking any kind of malice towards gender was the case.0 1 0 0
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Religion is all about fear, shame and control. Women are essential to survival because we make babies. Making sure you keep your women under control ensures the survival of your family, tribe, harem whatever...
The stories also seem to have a common theme other than evil women, and that's men that will try and impress to get a bit of pussy... even if that means damming the entire species ;)
If you want to read more about this kind of thing I suggest reading about Lillith who in some stories pre-dates Eve and was made from the same earth as Adam, not from his rib... she wasn't painted in a good light but she's a cool character none the less.0 0 0 0"Women are essential to survival because we make babies. Making sure you keep your women under control ensures the survival of your family, tribe, harem whatever..." - And yet males are the ones who have both X and Y chromosomes which are responsible for how there can even be both males and females to exist. Females only have X. Also, you only need one man to populate a place while you need several women, so the male seed is pretty essential. Something most people miss, especially about the Bible, is that it's generally the males who are in trouble more often. David, Goliath, Ammon, and Onan paid some price for their sexual mistakes, yet Rahab the harlot, Mary Magdelene, and Lots daughters faced nothing for theirs. As one example.
depends which version you're reading as to the details about biblical characters. I wasn't trying to say women are more important, only that they are essential to make more men.
It doesn't really matter, the Bible goes the same way no matter what translation. Lillith is a character from the Apocrypha, so I don't take any of that seriously. And men are essential to make more women. We're more responsible for that because we carry both genes anyway.
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1 5Because sexism isn't something new.
0 0 0 0I didn't read anything but the question but my knee jerk reaction is that men wrote the stories.
0 0 0 0its just a story, but lets face it men are logical women are emotioanl hence why they fk up often and big time too, why they date bad boys and end up wiht a baby and no father, why they support the bad guy until he hurts them or why they do what they do, maybe it sounds sexiest but look at women in the world we live in and observe them in times of danger or confusion... they tend to make really bad choices...
0 0 1 0cause most religions were invented by men in a misogynist society XD
1 0 0 0Because many religions follow the Adam and Eve start. As for the bible that more than made up by the numerous women that were helpful.
0 0 0 0Women get raped for having sex out of wedlock in Saudi Arabia? Is there any source for that? Have you ever been to SA?
0 0 0 0Decrease font Enlarge font (CNN) -- The Saudi Justice Ministry Tuesday issued a "clarification" of a court's handling of a rape case and the increased punishment -- including 200 lashes --meted out to the victim. The case, which has sparked media scrutiny of the Saudi legal system, centers on a married woman. The 19-year-old and an unrelated man were abducted, and she was raped by a group of seven men more than a year ago, according to Abdulrahman al-Lahim, the attorney who represented her in court. The woman was originally sentenced in October 2006 to 90 lashes. But that sentence was more than doubled to 200 lashes and six months in prison by the Qatif General Court, because she spoke to the media about the case, a court source told Middle Eastern daily newspaper Arab News. Ok not killed but whipped in this case they stopping killed back in the 1980's
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