Respect For Women Yes, Worship of Goddesses No

Women have fared very badly indeed in religions throughout history, is the short answer. Most large-scale religions, like most aspects of human culture, have been run by men, who have often used them to control and suppress women, in order to make sure that the sons who inherited their stuff were really their sons.

Religions have therefore regulated both women’s procreation and women’s right to own property. The two come together in the paranoid male obsession with female chastity, to ensure that male property would be inherited by male descendants.

On the other hand, religion on a local scale is also a place where women have often expressed their resistance, sometimes in their private rituals, which men called witchcraft, or by channeling the voices of angry goddesses. Full Story

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