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Originally Posted by Supine
I have low regard for the combination of Catholic + female. Satan believes in himself too.
Regard me as not existing and ignore me. I'd prefer to converse with a Muslim woman or even an Evangelical Protestant female.
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The misogyny of the Catholic Church goes way back... and you appear to be well and truly indoctrinated.
So who are your heroes?
Tertullian: (c 160 – 225 AD)
"The curse God pronounced on your sex still weighs on the world." "You are the devil's gateway"
"You are the first that deserted the divine laws. All too easily you destroyed the image of God, Adam".
"You led astray one whom the devil would not dare attack directly. It was your fault that the Son of God had to die; you should always go in mourning and rags."
Clement of Alexandria: (c 150 - 215 AD)
"the consciousness of their own nature must evoke feelings of shame".
St Jerome: (c 347- 420 AD)
"woman is the root of all evil."
Augustine: (354–430 AD)
"Why was woman created at all?" "Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God."
"I don't see what sort of help woman was created to provide man with, if one excludes procreation. If woman is not given to man for help in bearing children, for what help could she be? To till the earth together? If help were needed for that, man would have been a better help for man. The same goes for comfort in solitude. How much more pleasure is it for life and conversation when two friends live together than when a man and a woman cohabitate?" (he sounds like a closet case to me)
John Chrysostom: (347 - 407 AD)
"He wishes the man to have the preeminence in every way." "for the sex is weak and fickle".
"It does not profit a man to marry. For what is a woman but an enemy of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a domestic danger, delectable mischief, a fault in nature, painted with beautiful colors?...The whole of her body is nothing less than phlegm, blood, bile, rheum and the fluid of digested food ..."
Boethius: (c 480 - 524 AD)
"Woman is a temple built over a sewer."
Pope Gregory: ( 540 - 604 AD) "Woman is slow in understanding and her unstable and naive mind renders her by way of natural weakness to the necessity of a strong hand in her husband. Her 'use' is two fold; sex and motherhood."
Thomas Aquinas: (1225 - 1274 AD)
"Woman was made only to assist with procreation."
Albertus Magnus: (c 1200 - 1280 AD)
"Woman is less qualified [than man] for moral behavior. For the woman contains more liquid than man, and it is a property of liquid to take things up easily and to hold unto them poorly."
"Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his"
Of course Luther and Calvin weren't any better...
Martin Luther: (1483- 1586 AD)
"Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house and bear and bring up children"
"If a woman grows weary and at last dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing, she is there to do it."
"the wife should stay at home and look after the affairs of the household as one who has been deprived of the ability of administering those affairs that are outside and concern the state…."
"There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she would be wise."
John Calvin: (1509 - 1564 AD)
"All women are born that they may acknowledge themselves as inferior to the male."
"the woman's place is in the home."
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Would have been much better if Europe had become atheist or at least Buddhist or Jainist by the 14th century...