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Scold your wife sharply, bully and terrify her" is a quotation from a fifteenth century Catholic Church publication called 'Rules of Marriage', a "document which does not just condone wife battering but actually recommends it as a meritorious action that will bring spiritual benefit to both husband and wife: to the batterer and battered alike" (Women's International Network News). This is just one example of the inequality and suffrage that women have suffered in the Christian religion. Though today this sexism isn't as blatant as then, when beatings were condoned, it is still going on. Since the beginning of the Bible until today, the twenty-first century, women have been the lesser sex in the Christian faith. Though the Christian religion claims that all people are created equal, it is obvious that women have not been treated equally whatsoever, though things are improving with the womanist and feminist movement. In the beginning of the Bible, Adam and Eve were created. They were both told not to eat off of one tree in the Garden of Eden, yet Eve is the one who disobeyed. Even here in the Bible it is showing women to be the weaker sex. Eve, the woman, is the one who gave into temptation and tricked Adam, ruining it for a
Women's International Network News. P. 45. (1998). "How Organized Religions Support Violence Against Women."
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