09 Mar 2010 Vrindavan, India
Category: Religion
Yesterday I wrote that the statements that religion makes about sex confuse teenagers and young boys about their own feelings. And all these statements of course represent the ideas and attitudes of many years ago, when the religions were founded or when they gained much influence.
Unfortunately many religions are very reluctant to making changes to their antiquated statements, especially when the subject is sex. In the time when the scriptures were written, science was not as much developed and the structure of society was different. It was a society dominated by men and this is how you can read many things which are not at all nice about women.
The image of a woman is often and in several religions that a man should not get close to them, and should not spend much time with them otherwise he would fall into sin. Women are the ones who seduce men to lead them into sin. You just need to look at the Christian story of Adam and Eve and how Eve is the one who gets Adam to commit sin. I guess if women had written the Bible in that time, Adam would have convinced Eve to go against god’s orders.
I do not consider myself belonging to any religion and this is how it is just interesting for me to see the similarities to other religions. In so many countries and cultures even today men and women sit separately in religious buildings, at ceremonies or services. I just read today that many religions in earlier times had the idea that women can only be satisfied if men lead them. And even these days some people believe and act in this way.
Why do some religions have the rule for women to cover themselves from head to toe? Why do they have to and not men? Most of the times they are forced to do this. Well, men were the ones to write scriptures and to read them out in churches, mosques, temples and schools. Many of these men never have touched a woman and never came even close to one. But it is absolutely wrong to bring these old beliefs into modern day’s life.
How could you say a female being is less intelligent when some of the greatest thinkers on earth are women? How could you think that a woman is the one who leads you to sin when you hear the stories about men raping and cheating? God made us all, why would he make one gender better than the other one? Of course, we have some different attributes which are connected with how our bodies work, with our hormones and nervous systems but in the end our soul is just one.
Tags:: Body, Religion, Sex, God, Society , Islam, Rape, Cheating, Christianity, Hinduism, Rules, Scriptures, Sin
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Posted By Swami Balendu
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"Women can only be satisfied if men lead them." The man (men) who said this has never really known a woman. And it makes me sad. And I feel very very sorry for any woman who is forced into a relationship with a man like this.
Reply By Kenny Walters on November 07, 2010 01:27
Thank you for your fearless desire to bring this to light, Swami Balendu.
Reply By Jessica Baer on July 20, 2010 08:52
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