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Man’s god-given right to oppress women and every other living being comes from a misguided Judeo idea:

“Man shall have dominion over all the beasts,”

and this is the BIG LIE.

This is the big lie that men bought with all their hearts and souls, a lie that has led civilization astray.

Somehow, the male interpretation of the beasts blurred over to include women, thanks to some misogynist early Abraham descendents, thus justifying the male oppression of women, animals, and all living things, as well as the planet’s resources.

Most of the bible has been revised; there was the E (Elohim) revision, the J (Jesuit) revision, and the P (Priestly) revision to consolidate and justify the male intention to have dominion over all living things. But who can believe that a loving all-merciful god would order men to pillage and kill everyone in a village except the virgins who they were instructed to take for themselves to sell or enslave? Only someone whose own agenda is served by such preposterous claims.

The male world cosmology looks like this:

God

(who looks like a man and is an all-powerful male.)

Man

(who looks like god)

Woman

(servants of men &/or sex objects)

Animals

(food)

Living organisms

(greenery on the golf course)

Natural elements

(resources for industry)

Perhaps the cosmology should look more like this:

The Living Universe

Universal forces, both male and female

All living beings on the planet (female & male),

including human and non-human animals

and birds and fish.

Lower Life Forms

plants that nourish the living

Elements

that provide the nutrients for the plants

This cosmology, however, does not serve man’s interests because it would lead people to recognize that they owe more to the survival of all living things than they owe to male ambition and the male god.

Instead, we have this worship of the male god who can hardly be denied because to do so is heretical and heretics can be killed, burned &/or tortured, and they were and are. Muslim and East Indian women who don’t accept the male oppression can be killed; wives, sisters, daughters–they can all be killed by their male relatives because the women don’t count in the eyes of the male who reveres a fear-provoking, inflexible, blood-lusting male god. The men in the Middle East have manufactured the evil of women, and they will destroy themselves in order to guarantee their right (divine right) to subjugate their women. They have to torment someone it seems.

There is a bitter irony here. If men let go of the religious lie, as many intelligent men have done, they find the respect they crave, the respect that has been denied them by their women and children who have lived in fear of them or are disgusted by them. If the men hanging on so tightly to the lie would relax, respect themselves and others, and have some fun without the onerous burden of keeping up the lie, their lives would be much happier.