How many women have left Christianity because they felt it was chauvinist in nature?

Question

I am curious because I have noticed a lot of people posting in the R&S section claiming that women can't be priests because a woman's purpose in life is to get married and have babies.

Answer 1

I see feminists saying Christianity is sexist against women.  I see men's rights activists saying Christianity is sexist against men.  Hmmmm...

Answer 2

I haven't given up on Christ, but I don't go to churches that preach such nonsense.  I feel sorry for other women who have bought into the teaching that they are nothing more than a help meet for men.  I have a friend who believes this, and suffers from chronic depression.  I think her religious beliefs manifest the depression.

Answer 3

I say I'm a christian still because i have been baptised and I still believe in God and all that..

But I do not go to church...because 1..its boring as all heck..no life..no excitement..I mean come on...they are supposed to be celebrating Jesus...and they mostly act dead, Ive been in churches where you can actually feel the spirit and warmth as soon as you walk in..and ive been in some churches..where as soon as you walk in..you wanna walk back out. More often than not...i have come across the latter churches.

2. I dont really read the bible...many things in it are contradicting...and confusing...Like i dont understand why if a murderer asks God for forgiveness..He can go to heaven as long as he doesnt do it again...but if a g*y person can ask for forgiveness...and go to heaven..as long as he or she is miserable for the rest of their life and not with the one they wanna be with? But if they continue living a g*y lifestyle...they will go to h**l? even if they as for forgiveness? I dont understand that...

and 3...my mom...actually was more or less an assistant pastor at a church we used to go to a long time ago.

lol then again my mom wasnt all that traditional anyhow...if she had something to say...then she said it. No matter what anyone thought about it. If someone at that church disapproved of her getting in front of everyone and preaching..she would just give then this look and keep right on doing it...it made her happy and thats all that mattered.

Answer 4

Sexism was only one of many reasons why I was born a Catholic but do not identify with it, or organized religion at all, anymore.

Answer 5

I couldn't believe in Christianity for many reasons-from a very young age I thought it didn't make any sense and could never develop a faith in it. The church I grew up with was and still is sexist racist and homophobic-so it holds no interest for me. Plenty of churches have changed their views on women as well as g**s but I'm too much of a cynic to have much faith in any organized religion. After watching what people do while using their religion as an excuse-I have no desire to acquire a religious faith.

Answer 6

I have born in  a non christian home. So, my mom was who abandoned religion because she considered as an unfair structure. She was marxist, I'm not, but I keep her taughs about religion.

Answer 7

Why would anyone want to join atheism?

Answer 8

Just because you are Catholic, doesn't mean that you are a Christian. Granted that there are real Catholic-Christians. To be a Christian, you have to pray to God to take over your life. You also have to try to follow His word. There is no paper you carry around showing that you are a Christian, it is evident in your everyday life. Not all Christians believe that you cannot have women teachers. My church doesn't. A man in our church actually gave a sermon about that particular church in the Bible that Paul wrote to about not having women pastors. That church was worshipping their woman pastor. She was an adultrous and evil woman who was causing the church to sin. He told them that men should never fail enough that a woman who have to take the reins. He didn't mean that a woman couldn't, he just meant that the men shouldn't be weak enough as leaders that the women would have to take over for them. He wasn't sexist, he was a very wise man.

Answer 9

I've never been a christian but yes it does seem sexist, for example women not being priests. Also the bible says that because eve was naughty with the snake all women will be punished with the pain of childbirth..nice

Answer 10

I gave up on Christianity because I no longer believed and was not prepared to pretend. And no, I haven't gone to any other religion, because they all seem about the same when it comes to how I see the world.

But whenever I am drawn back towards religion again, it's the stupid contradictions and inconsistencies and cruelties such as the teachings about the role of women and the attitude towards LGBT people that give me pause.

So I can't say the issue of sexism stopped my believing, but it has prevented a recurrence.

Cheers :-)

Answer 11

I was brought up christian to start with.

I respect that organised religion can bring structured morality to people, along with something more than themselves to believe in.

I also note that the bible was written by a council, and a lot of it has been, if not so much today, a method of control.

So I dont believe - I have my own spiritual beliefs.  

But then Im not woman.

Answer 12

A woman married my husband and I...in a Christan (Methodist) church.  It all depends on your denomination and church its self.  

I am Methodist, my husband was raised Southern Baptist.  He left the church soon after he began college because he felt it was controlling.  He was very surprised when I told him that we were easily able to question things, even encouraged when we were  growing up.  His parents are still Southern Baptist and I notice I feel there is a lot of control by his father and even the church.  My husband and I do not live this way, we are very much equals. We both work and do not plan on having children for about 3 years.  He probably does more around the house than I do.

If you are a religious person I think you really need to find a religion, denomination and place of warship that suits your needs and beliefs.  I think many have this belief that all churches are the same, they are far from it.

Answer 13

I didn't turn my back on anything.  I felt that the Catholic Church was not representative of what I believed in and could not give me the spiritual solace I needed, and to continue in it would be hypocritical.  (The Holy Trinity was an old man, a young man, and a bird????  What's missing in that picture?)  I will always respect it, but walk a different path now.

The boneheads who talk of hating men are just full of cow diarrhea, but then you knew that.

Answer 14

Me

Answer 15

i don't understand why anyone would be anything other than atheist?

Answer 16

Times have changed quite a bit sines the bible was written. You'll notice religion adapting to changing culture.

As far as women abandoning their religion or belief because they can't be a priest: ridiculous. Everyone knows that 'getting married and having babies' is not the role of women in today's day & age. By giving up on a religion because of a so called 'stereotype' that they look at women as lesser than men would show weakness & defeat.

Just my 2 cents.

Answer 17

women can't be priests,women are not supposed to be priests and it's a good thing too because if you were priests,instead of preaching the word of God,you would be putting men down.

as for the getting married and have babies thing? noone forces you to get married and have babies,just don't get married when you are out of a job and you need to sponge off men.

Answer 18

I bet they haven't become muslems or Jews........