As Muslims strive to keep women uneducated and hidden
away, and Catholics await word from their new pope about the status of
women in the church, another religion also keeps women underfoot.
Israeli police on Thursday detained five women at a Jerusalem holy site for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men.
It's the
same old story: women are unworthy of interaction with gods. They are
intrinsically "unclean". Thus, they do not deserve male respect and
mustn't be allowed to touch the super-special magic items that every man
can touch. That would be a sin and it would make the baby
Jesus/Allah/Yaweh cry!
About 120 women arrived Thursday morning for their monthly prayer service and police detained five for wearing prayer shawls, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
Mustn't wear the magic garments! Nuh uh-uh. Can't do.
Religion
doesn't like women. It never has and it never will. It amazes me that
women don't secede from religion en masse. Wouldn't that be great? No
religious man would have a religious wife, and the wives and girlfriends
and daughters would laugh at the religious males. And of course, they
would never have sex with a religious guy. This could be an
effective movement if men weren't the vicious, hateful creatures that
they are. Because let's face it: they'd kill the women if they wouldn't
have sex with them and wouldn't "respect" their idiotic relationship
with an imaginary being.
Religion
is a cesspool. That's the short version of this and every story about
religion. It needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth.
