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Marjorie Proctor-Smith in Violence against women and children: a Christian Theological Sourcebook states that domestic physical, psychological or sexual violence is a sin. It victimizes family members dependent on a man and violates trust needed for healthy, equitable and cooperative relationships.
Christians have had diverse attitudes towards violence and nonviolence over time. Both currently and historically, there have been four attitudes towards violence and war and four resulting practices of them within Christianity: non-resistance, Christian pacifism, just war, and preventive war (Holy war, e.g., the Crusades). [1]
Historians note that Catholic missionaries, popes and religious were among the leaders in campaigns against slavery, an institution that has existed in almost every culture [8] [9] [10] and often included sexual slavery of women. Christianity affected the status of women in evangelized cultures like the Roman Empire by condemning infanticide ...
The following are a few translations of Greek Christian texts and biblical texts that show the roles that women partook in the Christianity and their actions that exemplify a follower of God. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is a prominent example of the significance of women in Christianity. When she was approached by Gabriel the archangel, she has ...
Internal religious issues are studied from the perspective of a given religion, and might include religious beliefs and practices about the roles and rights of men and women in government, education and worship; beliefs about the sex or gender of deities and religious figures; and beliefs about the origin and meaning of human gender.
Biblical patriarchy is similar to complementarianism, and many of their differences are only ones of degree and emphasis. [10] While complementarianism holds to exclusively male leadership in the church and in the home, biblical patriarchy extends that exclusion to the civic sphere as well, so that women should not be civil leaders [11] and indeed should not have careers outside the home. [12]
Christian egalitarian beliefs. Both women and men were created equal by God [151] Neither man nor woman was cursed by God at The Fall of Man [152] —"So the Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals!
Religious discrimination in the history of the United States dates back to 1493 when Pope Alexander passed a Papal Bull/ decree stating non- Christians were not entitled to own land, etc, that being non-Christian they were sub- human, thus vetting and encouraging the colonisation of Americas and virtual annihilation of the native Indian population.