Why is god always male?
father and son and blah.
allah putting women in burqas.
the trinity of the hindu gods. creator, preserver destroyer. but he's always male.
how could he create anything without the womb?
Having goddesess press their feet, sitting on lotuses of enlightenment or being worshipped as phalluses/lingams.
One of the reasons I am happy to be not in South Asia is that I dont have to drive past the ubiqoutous phalluses anymore. scattered across every street, Queues of worshippers blocking traffic.
Or have a bearded man tell me what to wear, as my skin is fitna and blocking streets for their weekly trip to jannat, no women, only 72 virgins in sight.
Do they know female rage, the ones who build up the goddess with clay and then throw her into the water?
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Haha I've asked my folks the same qs. Why am I always going Praise Him, Sorry to Him. Why not her?? As always Hindu parents don't know why a thing is done, they just know you have to do it coz it is being done. Obviously, religion made my man, had to glorify the MAN part about existence. So somewhere, that bias about sitting on a snake and pressing the feet of the Lord had to come by.
Of course though Hinduism has its female power in full glory too, the one you mentioned being drowned in water. Probably the only religion where a woman has been elevated to that high a status when it comes to power. When I went to convent school, I believed more in Mother Mary than Jesus and was told by my Protestant friends I was going on the wrong track. The Nuns told me, first praise the Son of the Lord!
The whole thing is though, in North India you have the female god being given a lot of importance, sadly though you have the highest cases of rapes, dowry murders, honour killings, female infanticides statistics coming from that region. So much for female reverence. I guess it is a man's world, let it stay that way. You don't want feminists being accused now for religious blasphemy too...
I've made my peace with it!
interesting insights. but this article is about partiarahy in religion. not hinduism or islam alone.
And I don't think I mentioned Islam in it to begin with.
It was just my experience accounted. I'm not Hindu and Muslim and Jew heritage like you. I grew up in a Hindu household and schooled in a convent, those are the only 2 religions I can say I know moderately well. Islam, I befriended post 9/11. So humbly just my view on the ONE religion I have had played in my life.
I never contested on what you wrote.
I agree with Karishma. Hinduism does have its female power in full glory - Laxmi, Sarawasti, Durga....the list is endless. So, your article should given credit where it is due. I also befriended Islam, post 911.
I don't see where Karishma wrote ANYTHING about Islam. It's probably just you that sees everything through "Islamic eyes."
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