Via Pretty Progressive: How Evangelicals and the Religion of Greed’s High Priests in Corporate America Share In This: Both of These Brutal Fundamentalist Religions…
There is a strange symmetry between America’s two dominant religions when it comes to how they treat women badly. Greed’s high priests leading the cult of corporate America and evangelicals both view women as second class citizens.
In evangelical circles “complementarian” patriarchal principles are fundamental to the far right faith of American fundamentalists. This belief asserts that while women and men are of value, God has assigned them specific gender “roles.” Specifically, it promotes male leadership and men’s authority over women, while encouraging women’s submission. This role of submission is called ‘Biblical womanhood’ but is nothing more than a reworked ploy by men to retain their positions of power in church and home.