Bible Discussion Thread

This is the one story that should have stopped misogynist Christians like that brute St Paul in their tracks. The one good thing we can say about Jesus is his attitude to women was brilliant. "Don't waste your lives in housework, you have a mind" that's this message. If a woman chooses to study and be scholarly, that's "the good part", wonderful! No wonder women were drawn in droves to early Christianilty. But then, Paul took over, and laid his heavy hand on what had been beautiful, declaring sex to be dirty, virginity higher, and women only the reflection of men. You find me anywhere that Christ took this attitude. Jesus would have despised Paul. Jesus clearly enjoyed life, he enjoyed good food, wine, conversation, he hung out with ordinary people as well as the higher ranks and was obviously a very different type to the hell-fire John the Baptist, or the fanatical Paul. And Jesus loved and was loved by women: why not, when he took them to have equal minds?