No wonder the fellas who talk nasty call you girls filthy names. You poor precious little things......I found the culprit who started all the trouble for you women. You'll never guess! It was those damn hebrew men who were women haters.....cept when god told them to be nice to them.
Whether or not you believe the Bible was divinely inspired, the Book of Genesis has served as the primary source in the West for definitions of gender and morality and has influenced and resulted in much of the way they are viewed and treated today.
Eve represents everything about a woman a man should guard against and because of her, the prevalent belief in the West has been that all women are by nature disobedient, guileless, weak-willed, prone to temptation and evil, disloyal, untrustworthy, deceitful, seductive, and motivated in their thoughts and behaviour purely by self-interest.
No matter what women might achieve in the world, the message of Genesis warns men not to trust them, and women not to trust themselves or each other. Whoever she might be and whatever her accomplishments, no woman can escape being identified with Eve, or being identified as her.
Paul, for example, in his letter Timothy, could cite Genesis as the reason why women should not be allowed to teach or to tell a man what to do:
- 1Tim. 2:12-14) "For I do not allow woman to teach, or to exercise authority over men; but she is to keep silent. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
- What a dipshit argument Paul uses. Women are to keep their mouths shut because they sinned first. He also makes it sound as if men are never decieved. Seems to me Eve decieved him into eating the fruit.
- It however didn't stop with the old Hebrew men bastards. This attitude continued along with the church fathers and leaders down through the centuries. Below is a quote from the early Christian theologian Tertullian 155/160-220 CE, who reminded women that they all share Eve's responsibility of original sin and the reason and cause of the fall of the human race.
Tertullians quote:
"Do you not believe that you are (each) an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives on even in our times and so it is necessary that the guilt should live on, also. You are the one who opened the door to the Devil, you are the one who first plucked the fruit of the forbidden tree, you are the first who deserted the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the Devil was not strong enough to attack. All too easily you destroyed the image of God, man. Because of your desert, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.
No wonder you poor damn women eat, drink, take valium and sit around and eat chocolate bon bons all day long while us men are out playin golf!
Gumby