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Originally Posted by ianch99
Tricky. Human rights and equality and diversity legislation are in short supply in the Religious texts and when you get the people who follow these texts literally, they really go out of the window.
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Did you know (no, you didn’t, but hey), that women have held office in the Baptist Church since the 1620s and the first fully accredited female Baptist minister began serving in the 1920s? Within the Reformation it was Baptists who argued, were pilloried, jailed and executed, for insisting on freedom of religion, including the freedom to have no religion at all.
I think you might be surprised at what is actually in the Bible, as opposed to what powerful people have chosen to present as Biblical in order to arrange society to suit themselves.