The deity should have done the decent thing!

[Gonnagle]

Dear Hope,

Indeed! our story of Glasgow's patron St is evidence of this, his mother "Thenew" was condemned to be thrown of a high cliff because she was pregnant out of wedlock, the high priests or druids had condemned her to this fate.

Of course because she had already converted to Christianity, a flock of birds engulfed her and eased her fall, and the fact that she was carrying a saint.

Gonnagle.

[Nearly Sane]

Yep, it wasn't Christians who first thought of women as property, not was it clear when their church, inspired by some omniscient omnipotent being, started that they had been told they weren't somehow property. Indeed much of their mythology like impregnating a woman non consensually or the Ten Commandments which effectively classified a wife as the equivalent of a donkey supported the whole chattel idea.

[Alien]

Yep, it wasn't Christians who first thought of women as property, not was it clear when their church, inspired by some omniscient omnipotent being, started that they had been told they weren't somehow property. Indeed much of their mythology like impregnating a woman non consensually or the Ten Commandments which effectively classified a wife as the equivalent of a donkey supported the whole chattel idea.

Equivalent of a donkey? Why do you say that? Are you referring to any studies on the position of women in the OT or something else?