Bandicoot— yes— I really did notice that he said “patriarchal society” and that is so important. because it made me think of the really horrid killing of nonbelievers and the vile treatment of women in Christian lands. How full of harshness and judgement—how much like the Old Testament did the New Testament become. Jesus killed twice so to speak.
Have you read the torturous killings over sectarian differences? The wholesale slaughters?
cofty had said somewhere that Islam is the slow child in the class. Later someone else remarked “ no, Islam is the bully”
lslam is the slow one. The little brother of Christianity.
Christianity couldn’t shake its violent beginnings. And now the Bronze Age monster is come again as Islam.
But we do have laws . And perhaps we do now have better hearts? Braver ones.
we will see.
I hope you read the very brief history of Christianity’s sectarian violence .
Yes, wasn't that beautiful, though-“I never clipped her wings”.
p.s. and there are so many more like Malala