[ATLian]

>i dont know the connection between this verse and the one
>above, but it seems to me women were created as an
>after-thought brought about by Adam's need for help.

The interesting thing is the first option god gave man for a "help" were the animals. After Adam realized that hippos and warthogs just weren't doing it for him, then god decided to make him a woman. Kinda shows where god places women on his scales of importance.

The reason men dominate women, why god is male, and why women are so irrelevant in most religions is because god was created by man, man wrote the rules of religion, and so man placed himself above women. So man carried his chauvinistic ways onto his gods. It even happens in religions with many deities, coz the goddesses are always evil conniving biyatches.

In a nutshell, the Bible is one long list of attrocities against women, it totally demeans women over and over again:

- it clearly puts women as second class citizens to men
- it equates women as property owned by men
- it says that when women are on their periods they are considered unclean by god and so they shouldn't step into his presence
- it says that god only accepts sacrifices of male animals
- it says that when a woman gives birth to a son she's unclean for 33 days but if it's a daughter she's unclean for 66 days
- it says God wanted to meet all the Israelite males thrice a year but not the females
- it says if a man sleeps with a woman who's engaged, she has to die, while he can offer a ram as a sacrifice and he'll be Ok
- ETC ETC ETC

Too many other examples too numerous to mention. I honestly don't understand how a woman can worship a god who is so demeaning towards women, to me it's like a black guy joining the KKK ...