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Replying to historia in post #218]
"Christianity is more than just the Bible."
This is true, but it is a poorly 'mixed bag.'
The admonition in
Revelation, “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,” is largely disregarded by the 'Church'* and its congregants who have created a 'Christian' culture that would make Jesus of Nazareth vomit.
But to the point of democracy and equality, despite the centuries of resistance of Christianity, Jesus (the guy Christianity is
not based on), is as responsible as anyone for the (relative) equality of women today. Even Greece, the birthplace of democracy, did not allow women to vote until 1952.
But Jesus venerated women. He treated them as equals. He stood up for the woman at the well, the Canaanite womon; he surrounded himself with women and defended them despite being admonished for it. Paul but the brakes to that influence to a degree, but
we should acknowledge the powerful influence of Jesus regarding at least a measure of equality for women.
Jesus's Countercultural View of Women
The place of women in the first-century Roman world and in Judaism has been well-documented and set forth in several recent books.1 Most frequently, women were regarded as second-class citizens.
Jesus’s regard for women was much different from that of his contemporaries. Evans terms Jesus’s approach to women as “revolutionary” for his era....
For Christ, women have an intrinsic value equal to that of men.
https://www.crossway.org/articles/how-j ... ued-women/
No one comes to mind who has been a greater force for the equality of women than the man, Jesus of Nazareth, as depicted in the Gospels.
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*Especially LDS