Religion and women - does 'God' hate women??

hmm yea same.. here... in my culture.. all parents want sons... to carry on their name... i want a daughter... There is this indian tribe.. where woman are treated like $hit.... like they marry a woman.. and wen they get fed up with her... the man just gives a betel leaf and a coin in it to her.... and that means they are divorced... and then the man can marry any girl.. is that horrible or wat.... There is another place in north eastern india where matriarchs rule the family... the woman are the heads of the family and the properties are transferred to the woman.... even the men marry into the woman's family.. and take the woman's name.. lol...

I Don't Know Other Culture & Beliefs But as a Muslims I Tells You Please Read it Carefully & Cool Minded Don't Think About False Propagandas I Only Ask You to Think Carefully With your Cool Mind & Heart.Listen "Islam is the Great Religion That Gives the Women Protection & Strong Her.There is No Difference Between Women & Men in Islam But for a Goodness of a Person Makes Him Superior to others. So Do You Know??? Before Islam Peoples Think likes You "Women is a Property" But Islam Rejected all False thinking Islam teach a Guys to Marry with Women If He Have a Money & in first Give the Money Because its the Right of Women She Marry With You Than Take care whole Life The Only Duty of Women is Islam Just to Pray & Take Care our Husband & Child & I Think there is nothing hard to take care your child because you already Love Your Child blindly So Its nothing any hard i think & take care You husband I think its the easy Because as a Human You Don't care someone??? If He will give you anything like Food & protection & Satisfied her & if The Women don't due our workout I think she is the worst ever in Islamic Thoughts there is the Huge Load of Men Likes a Money & Providing anything." So My Sister I Disagree with You "Gods Hates a Women" Nothing God Loves anything that he Creates But God Don't Likes If Women sell ourself & Act like a Useless animals Who else likes this??? have a nice day.

If you examine the religious thinking of societies in which women are degraded I'm thinking you will find the answer. In each and every case, Men control the Religion and Accept the Power that comes along with it. Take the Roman Catholic Church for example. Just last year the Pope proclaimed that women could not be Priests. He declined to give details. Just recently, the Canadian Supreme Court upheld a law that gives women Equal Rights with men. This ruling went as far as to allow women to go topless in public, even as men already have this right.The exception being that women are not to cause a public nuisance by their toplessness. ( Only in Canada, You Say?)

i don't believe it was God, I believe it was men...

Women have to do all that in California? I would complain to Arnold Shwarzegger your governor, you should at least be able to drive.

If you will look at the God in the Bible, you will see that there is a great appreciation of women like Ruth and Mary. But the Bible also shows that there is a distinct difference in the roles men and women play in life. For example. husbands are tasked to lead the family. Does this degrade women? No. For God everyone is equally important and He loves men and women equally. The roles in life are just different. God even made men and women different to complement each other.

2 responses to your question - yes, looking at history, religion does, but God does not. I'll try to speak from a biblical Christian perspective. Most people think the women's lib movement began when women first won rights to vote. Well, if you'd accept Jesus Christ as speaking for God, He was quite liberating for that Samaritan woman by the well, who had 5 husbands and was cohabiting with one more by the time she and Jesus met. In their culture, and at that time, it was taboo for men to talk to women, and a Samaritan at that. (Jews didn't associate with Samaritans) But Jesus initiated the conversation by asking for water from her during one of His travels, and had a serious talk after that. You can read all about this in the Bible (New Testament), book of John chapter 4 verses: 4-42. Try BibleGateway.com if you don't have a copy of a Bible. And if you accept the Bible as God's word to man, there are other passages that attest to the fact that men and women are looked upon as equals in God's sight. Galatians 3:28 talks about the NON-EXISTENCE of religious/cultural, economic, and gender differences with God. It was Christ who said if you know the truth, it'll set you free. What can be more freeing than knowing this? As far as arranged marriages go, I think it's various societies that created that, not God. Abraham did somewhat arrange for Isaac's marriage to Rebekah, though it was his servant who really made the choice. Jacob married twice, the first was his father-in-law's choice, the other his own. Esau married against his parents' wishes. Joseph was given an Egyptian wife by the Pharaoh. Moses made his own choices regarding his wives. And so on, and so forth. Nowhere in the New Testament, as far as I know, was there a teaching about arranged marriages. The Bible does say the wife need to be submissive to her husband, etc.. Written by the apostle Paul, who's always been controversial, it was an order made to keep peace & order in the church. Back then, men and women were seated separately, and the latter tended to shout at their husbands when asking about something, during the service, therefore disrupting it. It could be about anything, from a household task, or something about the sermon. In the household, it's accepted that men are the heads, anyways. And men, children, elders were given directives too, by the way. Texts to read are 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Timothy 2, Titus 2, I Peter 3 (all in the New Testament). Any references to the woman as the weaker partner doesn't mean inferiority, just different. A preacher I listen to recently likened this gender difference to women being silk, and men as denim. OK, this has gotten so long. I hope it explained a little about how God sees men and women.

i just belive myself,so i dont know religion well,sorry