When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.
It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.
Empowering women leads to a more inclusive growth of society and the nation.
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
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