Women and Religion

The most interesting presentation so far. Lol to me anyways. I love talking about all the different religions and belief systems of the world. Something about it interests me. But anyways. Women in religion. Well in my mind there is no doubt that religion is a huge factor in the oppression of women. All you have to do is look at the power structure of most of the religions in the world and you see that women are at the bottom. The only thing I don't know what do with is how to think about the people in other countries around the world of various religions that we, as americans, think are being oppressed. Are they really being oppressed? I mean Larissa said it in class, "I don't feel oppressed because we never had anything." Well they don't feel oppressed, so that means they aren't? Kind of the same question we keep getting back to in class. Do we have the right to go out and tell women that they aren't oppressed in other countries? Would these women even agree with us?

Another thing that's interesting to me is the fact that when religions seem to start up, they are mostly run by women. In our paper, I took a special interest in the women and religion portion of the paper. And in Christianity, when it was first made, women were the main people that were worshipping and running the religion. This is due to the fact that Rome was still worshipping several Gods, and actually the rich people of Rome were worshipping some other religion. Anyways, that just left poor people and women to worship Jesus. There was no difference in gender in the early days of the church. Then the emperor made it the official religion of Rome, thousands of people converted, men were in charge of the country and family without question, and so it transferred to christianity. Just some interesting thoughts overall...