The bible says women are mentally deficient

A great article written by Bassan Zawadi, a writer at Answering Christianity. Here's his site, talking about how the bible totally degrades women: http://www.call-to-monotheism.com/deficiency_of_woman_s_mind_according_to_the_bible

Here is a verse from the New Testament talking about husbands and wives and the way they should treat each other...

1 Peter 3:7

"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker (asthenes) partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers."


The word asthenes means...

1) weak, infirm, feeble

Source: http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/words/7/1146844809-9534.html


It usually refers to weakness in a physical sense. However, it could also refer to weakness in a mental sense as well...


1 Corinthians 8:7,10

"But not everyone knows this. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak (asthenes), it is defiled.

For if anyone with a weak (asthenes) conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol's temple, won't he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols?"

So does this mean that the wife is not only weaker physically but mentally as well? Well a well known commentator sure did think so...

and here "the weaker"; being so for the most part, both as to strength of body, and endowments of mind; (John Gills Exposition to the Bible, Commentary on 1 Peter 3:7)

Vatican police asks women campaigners to leave

Activists campaigning for the Catholic Church to ordain women as priests were asked to leave the Vatican on Tuesday.

They argue that women in the priesthood could have helped lessen the impact of the child abuse scandal sweeping the church.

The half-dozen campaigners had unfurled a banner and were handing out leaflets when Vatican police asked them to go.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/08/vatican-police-ask-women-priest-campaigners-to-leave/

Preacher swear's at women for cheating and wearing revealing clothes

Uh oh we all know what the bible says about women who have affairs, they must be burned alive



Angry residents demolished a preacher's home because they're fed-up of his public sermons accusing female neighbours of sleeping around.

But the man of God refuses to budge and has simply rebuilt it.
Philippi residents say the pastor regularly stands in the middle of the road and starts swearing at women in front of their young children accusing them of having affairs.

People finally had enough and demolished his shack on Monday but the persistent preacher rebuilt his shack on Tuesday.

A resident says the pastor is lucky people in his area have not tried to hurt him.

"He stands in the road and tells the women they cheat on their men and others sleep with their own children," he says.

"When they confront him, he tells them God shows him their infidelities in his dreams."

A 52-year-old woman, who asked not to be named, says the pastor followed her daughter and swore at her all the way to the shop.

"He told her she is a witch who always wears revealing clothing and she learned witchcraft from me," says the disgusted woman.

The pastor was unavailable for comment. - Daily Voice

Dutch Christian Party bans women

AMSTERDAM – A fundamentalist Christian political party led entirely by men was told by the Netherlands' Supreme Court on Friday that it must accept women in leadership roles.

The Political Reformed Party, known by its Dutch acronym SGP, has consistently held two or three seats in the country's 150-member national parliament since the 1920s but has never had a female candidate at any level.

"People say it's only a small party, so why bother?" said Kathalijne Buitenweg, chair of the women's rights organization that brought the case challenging SGP policies.

"But can you imagine the outcry there would be in this country if a party with these principles had been organized by Muslims?"

The SGP, which says it draws its inspiration from the Bible, has argued that restricting leadership roles to men is justified by religious freedom.

"The constitutional right to freedom of religion does indeed give the party the right to express its opinions," said Judge Detmer Beukenhorst, reading a summary of the court's ruling in The Hague.

"But in a democratic country, political ideals and programs can only be carried out within the boundaries set by laws."

The ruling said the party's policies are in conflict with the 1979 U.N. Treaty for the Rights of Women and it instructed the Dutch government to take unspecified measures to force the SGP to change.

Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin was quoted by Dutch paper De Volkskrant Friday as saying he hoped the SGP would "draw its own conclusions" from the ruling.

In a statement, the SGP criticized the ruling as "incomprehensible" and said it would have no immediate effect.

"The SGP knows that it is dependent on God in all circumstances and will go on no less strongly carrying out its mission," it said. "That is, bringing Biblical values into the governance and organization of the Netherlands."

It then unveiled its list of candidates for national elections in June — with no women among them.

The SGP draws most of its support from members of various conservative Calvinist churches, notably the Netherlands Reformed Congregations, in an area known as the Dutch Bible Belt.

Buitenweg said that in a way it was surprising the ruling is coming now, and not a generation earlier. But she said the government and many people have turned a blind eye to the SGP, rationalizing it as politically irrelevant.

In addition, most of the women in communities where the party is strong do not support modernization.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100409/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_religion

Now if we look over to the right side, women are clearly forbidden to take leadership or have authority over men.