| | Yes, and that is because with the exception of contemporary outshoots, all religions have been, from historical times, patriarchal - which essentially views the female's purpose as submissive and for procreation... the old pagan religions, which were matriarchal, and had vestal temple women, and celebrated the female's sexuality - were despised, as they considered that sex of equal or more than the male, something to which the patriarchal could not abide, as it would unravel their power structuring...
One could say the matriarchal religions celebrated life, while the patriarchal ones feared death...
(Edited by robert malcom on 5/31, 11:12am)
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In 1963, when a benefactor offered to fund a chapel [at Churchill College, Cambridge], and Crick’s fellow Fellows voted to accept the money, Crick refused to accept the argument that many at the college would appreciate a place of worship and that those who didn’t were not obliged to enter it. [Crick] offered to fund a brothel on the same basis, and, when that was rejected, he resigned.
