Summary of Religion and Feminism

Women and girls had been discriminated against for a long time. Especially the religion that is most practical in the United states; Christianity, shows huge bias toward men . There is a sentence that  quote from the Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many things. Moreover, there is also a belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence and many other crimes...

" The impact of these religious beliefs touches every aspect of our lives. They help explain why in many countries boys are educated before girls, why girls are told when and whom they must marry..."  This is quoted on one of the source. It clearly shows that religion beliefs are one of the main reasons in which women doesn't the same rights and treatments as men. Also, in some Islamic nations, women are restricted in their movements, and some even get punished for competing with men for a job.

Women back in the old days didn't get rights and treatment like men when it comes to religion. During the years of the early Christian church, women would served as deacons, priests, bishops, apostles, teachers and prophets. All the leaders, and pope were men. Many women were angry about the unfairness that had happened to women, and that they formed a lot of organization and and gives a message to other people in order to give women the right they deserve.

Most religions come down on the wrong side of many of the policy issues of importance to feminist. One example of this is the abortion rights or the roles of women in the family. Women should have the right to decide future, not religion. Religion forbid women from abortion, even it could risk her life by keeping her baby.  When it comes to faith, everyone has a personal journey and a personal decision, and that women have used religions and faith to argue against the existence of god and the wrongness of religion. "Because it is a natural rights that everyone should be able to decide their personal journey and have personal decision, why should listen to religion if they didn't give women these rights"  Many people therefore questioned the existence of god. One of the writer of an article said: " Myself, I'm a very committed agnostic — so committed to agnosticism that I'm agnostic on the existence of God. I would like to believe in God and/or a religion, or even not believe in God entirely, because I feel like faith in one of those things would be easier than questioning all of them simultaneously."

" Many traditions teach that while both men and women are equal in value, God has ordained specific roles for men and women." By just looking at this, we can have a sense that this quote that is taken from an article about religion and feminism was trying to convince us that it is not that men and women are not equal, but it just that men and women both have specific roles that God had set up for them.

 " Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior....so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything" This is one quote in the Bible .It shows that the man's role is to be the head, and the women's role is to submit to him, and the women's role is to submit to him. The article also said that religion is making the women 's life more difficult. For example , women are not permitted to decide what happen to them. The Catholic Church forbid abortion, even when the mother's life is at risk if she continues with the pregnancy.

"Religion is one life after another, the lie of original sin the lie of eternal life, the lie of hell, the lie of answered prayer, the lie that life can have no meaning without religion, the lie that religion is the source of morality, the lie of creationism, the lie of a spy in the sky who hears your every words and reads your every thought" This is the quote that explain how religion is unreliable and since religion is only beneficial to men, it is time for women to wake up to it.

The Feminist women has been successful in variety of areas. For example , before, a woman did not have the right to decide whether she could have abortion on her or not, even when her life is at risk. Now, women certainly can if there is a good reason for it. However , women were not very successful in the religion area. For example in Christianity now, the head of the church, or the Pope, will never be women. So do Buddhism, the head of the temple were never women. Women feminism in general, certainly is successful ,  they have earned more rights and freedom than before.