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Re: pro-life
Interesting.
There's no doubt that pregnancy and children are a way that men have used forever to control women. Just from a biological standpoint it makes us more vulnerable. And then they can use our children against us to force us to do just about anything...they still do this in extremist Muslim countries. Just by threatening to take them from us.
Sorry, I'm a more linear thinker, you added many other perspectives to it.
My guess is that the religious try to put controls on human sexuality because it is something they know they are powerless against, and always have been. It is the prime human directive and NOTHING else has inspired so many to contradict their faith with gusto.
Sex, after all, is also a bastion of female power. The power of creation, in reality, exists within THEM. The word "no" is theirs to utter to unacceptable mates. They have the final word. That aspect of human nature is a direct contradiction to the imagined favor of men. God clearly did not create us equal and that truth can not fully be quantified in terms of physical strength alone. The powers that women enjoy are much more magical and important than the blessings of violence with which men have been endowed. I think that irks the religious who have long imagined a male god.
Interesting.
There's no doubt that pregnancy and children are a way that men have used forever to control women. Just from a biological standpoint it makes us more vulnerable. And then they can use our children against us to force us to do just about anything...they still do this in extremist Muslim countries. Just by threatening to take them from us.
Sorry, I'm a more linear thinker, you added many other perspectives to it.