Mother's Day and the Bible
  by William Edelen

Mother's Day is here again with Sunday sermons filled with clichés, platitudes and banalities. This is a good time to take a hard look at what the bible and the church have done to degrade women.

Dr. Gerald Larue, Distinguished professor emeritus of biblical history and archaeology at the University of Southern California, wrote these words: "The Bible has been one of the most powerful social weapons in the arsenal of those who restrict and curtail the freedom of women. No matter what Bible you use, the message is the same: WOMEN ARE INFERIOR. Their inferiority is, moreover, ordained by God. How long are we going to let people who lived and died thousands of years ago dictate the way we live and think today?"

The bible is man-made, written BY men FOR men and promoting the ludicrous party line that they are taking orders from a male God.

A brief history lesson:

In the year 584 C.E.. there was held the Council of Macon in Lyons, France. Sixty-three Catholic Bishops met to engage in a serious debate on this subject: "ARE WOMEN HUMAN?" When the vote was finally called for, thirty-two voted "yes," thirty-one voted "no." Women were declared "human" by only one vote!

The Christian church for centuries taught the doctrine of Augustine and Aquinas (church "fathers," they are called) that a mother contributes nothing to her child's genetic inheritance, but acts only as the "soil" for the male bearing seed.

To stay pregnant and barefoot has been the "divine calling" of women throughout the history of the Christian church.

MARTIN LUTHER put it this way: "Women should stay at home, sit still, keep house and bear children. If a woman grows weary and dies from childbearing, it does not matter. Let her die bearing children, that is all she is here for."

ST. AUGUSTINE (345-430 C.E.) wrote: "Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable of is guilty of murder."

JOHN WESLEY, of Methodist fame, in a letter to his wife wrote: "Wife...be content to be insignificant...of what loss would it be to God or man had you never been born?"

JOHN KNOX, of Presbyterian fame, wrote: "Woman was made to serve and obey man."

The history of women in the Christian church is a history of half-witted, ignorant and warped men who have acted as if they had frontal lobotomies. At the National convention of the Southern Baptists in this year of 2003, it was once again proclaimed that "wives must submit to the leadership of their husbands." This was too much for former President Jimmy Carter, who quit.

Now, you might ask, where did they get these sick and psychotic opinions? Why, where else but from the bible, that book that many still call the "without error" Word of God.

As Maude Featherhead (a fictional character I once created) said, "Hot damn, there it was right out of God's mouth. Us women were created for men." But she secretly thought, "You know...I don't tell Clyde...'cause he would get mad...he loves it this way, of course. But...sometimes in the night...when I can't sleep...I allow myself to think that Thomas Jefferson was right when he called the bible "a dunghill," written by "ignorant men."

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