The Bible does not treat woman poorly in any regards. If anything it supports them. It was a main tool during the women's right movements.
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If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.Deuteronomy 22:28-29
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.Deuteronomy 22:23-24
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. Exodus 21:7-11
For it's time, the New Testament at least is Feminist.
Maybe, but it's weighing it against today's standards that counts.
@ Brain in a jar,
In that case, not much is going to go through.
You have to go through things slowly to improve them, otherwise you are going to risk making more fundies of any type because thier family was "shocked" and desserves to be cleansed. Err... educated.
Except when they have to revise the marriage to the rapist, the fact that they were unclean after labour and menstruation, and let´s not forget that men could repudiate them at their will. But they support women nonetheless.
@ Bad Wolf
Actually, both sides of the early (pre-60's) feminist movement did use the bible to bolster their case. The feminists noted that, after he was resurrected, Christ revealed himself to his female followers first as an indication of his respect for them. The opposition cited the passages about "women must remain silent in the church" as proof that he did not respect them.
Which shows that, then as now, the bible can be used to "prove" whatever point you want it to, even grossly contradictory points. In other words, it was useless then and it is useless now.
If the bible supports women so strongly, how come the Catholic Church has vilified and denigrated women so consistently for the last 1700 years?
Maybe they incorporate a New Testament book missing from my version. The Mysogyny According To St Paul, or some such.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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