The miniseries Divine
Women on BBC World News this weekend delves into the issue of women’s roles
in creating world religions. I think the idea is that women were instrumental
in the founding of the great religions of the world, but they don’t get credit
for it.
Wow, a system of strictures encouraging men to deny their
natural tendencies toward violence, greed, aggression, selfishness, philandering, drinking,
gambling, laziness, bragging, lying, cheating, hogging the TV remote, etc.: how could anyone
think women had anything to do with
such a thing? (The mind boggles at the suggestion.)
Actually, I think the greatest accomplishment of this system was to trick men into believing they had thought of this
stuff themselves, and by showing this TV miniseries, they’re going to let the cat out of
the bag about what’s really been
going on all along: not a good idea!
(Maybe once we see this, men will all see how they’ve been conned, and they’ll
start a new religion based upon machismo, penis size, sports and alcoholic
beverage consumption. {Or, wait; maybe they’ve secretly done that already?})
