The Roman Catholic Church Has Had 1800 Years

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59. Thank you for a very interesting read.

Dualism is certainly integral to the subordination of women and girls.

One aspect of this is the belief, expressed in Genesis, that the pain of childbirth is punishment for the supposed inherently sinful nature of women, as epitomized by Eve "tempting" Adam. The notion that it's the result of an evolutionary process that rewarded an upright position as an advantage (to early humanoids living in savannahs and tall grasslands) but impacted the birth canal by tilting the pelvis (the downside of this evolution) of course wouldn't have occurred to Neolithic humans in the process of standardizing their religious beliefs.

It also comes out of the "just world" theory as explained by Melvin Lerner, the notion that bad things (such as pain) happen to bad people, and that misfortune of any kind is just punishment for sin, even if the sin isn't evident to any outside observer. Lerner explains how this is a way for humans to make some sense out of the randomness of experience, the fact that none of us is in actual control of much anything that happens to us--up to and certainly including death. The dualism of "Good" vs. "Bad" is a way of explaining misfortune that offers the illusion of control where none actually exists.

"A toxic feedback loop" indeed.

Best wishes.