Thursday, December 12, 2019
HOORAY FOR EQUALITY!
Subject: HOORAY FOR EQUALITY!
In light of Wyoming’s celebration of our 150th anniversary for approving women’s suffrage, I’d like to comment briefly about the importance of equality in general – as offered in more detail in my recent book, KNOWING CHRIST, available at Amazon. Personally, I have found the notion and the practice of equality to be “The Ideal” in life. I think mankind has long suffered because of the notion and practice of inequality – and it is that notion and practice that has caused continuous chaos in human history – starting in a religious sense with the notions proffered in the first book of the Bible – GENESIS – that supposes that woman came from “the rib of a man” – probably stemming from an ignorance of the ovary.
If the “guy” who wrote GENESIS had only known that a woman has an ovary that produces an egg that combines with the sperm of a man to conceive life, then it is less likely he would have written that the first woman – Eve – was created from the rib of the first man, Adam. In all likelihood, the “guy” who wrote GENESIS had no idea that women have seeds that are “equal” to the seeds of men; and thus, he wrote a tale that has woman coming from man and therefore being subservient to man. It just stands to reason, does it not? If woman really came from man, then women are dependent upon men for “being born” in the first place. Right?
And the general tale of inequality among created beings has just gone on from there. That is what I have come to believe. I could be wrong, but I think it was largely due to the ignorance of the ovary that the “guy” who wrote GENESIS wrote it the way he did; but in that tale is the General Tale of inequality that has allowed for all sort of stupidity and imbalance and chaos in the world.
Be that as it may, Thanks to Wyoming for being the first state in the Union to grant women the right to vote – 150 years ago. Onward, Wyoming – and Onward, World!