So this week, we had a discussion regarding religion and feminism (as well as an essay on the topic). We discussed the role of the woman Eve in regard to feminism and how some practices in religion served to subjugate women. I had a bit of a problem with the way that the writers seemed to slant their views on Eve and other women in the Bible, in that they felt that men viewed all women in the light of one biblical women, without looking at the positive examples of other women in the Bible. I felt that by looking for ways that the Bible and, by extension, religion demeaned women, the writers of these articles overlooked ways in which the Bible served to uplift women and punished not just wicked women, but also wicked men, as well.
This is one of the points that I brought out in discussion board posting--that if we look for ways that the Bible has "done us wrong" as women, so to speak, we miss out on ways that the Bible has highlighted positive female examples that we can look up to. Nevertheless, it was interesting and eye-opening to see what people really thought of the Bible writers and their writings, as well as what they felt the Bible figures represented.
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