The Bible is undeniably a sexist book. It constantly devalues and objectifies women. Is it hard to be a bible-believing Christian and a modern woman? [Spirituality & Religion]

@chrisCA

I mean you can count on one hand the number of women are spoken well of as people.
Basically Ruth...maybe the Mother Mary, maybe Mary Magdalene?

@Pikachu The Catholic Church does honour other women, the ones not mentioned in the Bible, but in their tradition.

@chrisCA

Oh you mean like saints?

@Pikachu Yes

@chrisCA

Well that's something the Catholics did right anyway lol

@Pikachu [quote]Oh you mean like saints?[/quote]
Many of which were originally Pagan goddesses. 😇

@Sharon

Oh yeah? Neat, i hadn't heard that before.

@Pikachu It was in the early days when the church was hijacking Pagan festivals (e.g. Yule/Saturnalia, Oestra etc.) to gain a hold over the people. Canonizing their gods and goddesses was just another ploy. There's a list of some of them here - http://piereligion.org/pagansaints.html

@Sharon

Oh that's pretty interesting. Not surprising lol but interesting.