“We are fools for Christ’s sake,” exclaims Paul (1 Cor. iv, 10).
CHAPTER XXXII.
INJUSTICE TO WOMEN—UNKINDNESS TO CHILDREN—CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Injustice to Women.
I refuse to accept the Bible as a moral guide because it has degraded woman.
The holy offices of wife and mother it covers with reproach. Its teachings carried out, as they were during the centuries of Christian rule, leave woman but two paths in which to tread—the one leading into slavery, the other into exile. Servitude in the house of a husband, or self-banishment into a convent—these are the sad alternatives presented for her choice.
“Thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee” (Gen. iii, 16).
“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands” (Col. iii, 18).