{"id":474,"date":"2016-09-29T18:57:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=474"},"modified":"2016-09-29T18:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:57:58","slug":"women-and-gentiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/belief\/humanist\/women-and-gentiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and Gentiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blessed be he who has not made me a woman&#8230; Blessed be he who has not made me a gentile&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; This is part of the Morning Prayer, spoken regularly by religious Jewish men.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound good, right? There are tons of explanations and excuses for this &#8220;enlightened&#8221; text. Some say it&#8217;s actually meant to emphasize the superiority of the woman (yeah right, and also of the gentile&#8230;). Others say it&#8217;s just a general blessing, plus mentioning the facts (I wonder then: Why in the woman&#8217;s prayer &#8211; this segment looks totally different?). Yet there are other more creative excuses &#8211; I&#8217;m sure you can also come out with some of your own.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it. The Jewish religious god loves Jews more than gentiles, and loves men more than women (for each you can find zillion of other quotes). The reason? Simple: The texts were written by men, and in a different era. No need for sophisticated excuses.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, you can have a real smart conversation with many religious men. You can talk about moral issues, differential equations or quantum mechanics. Yet, just a few hours ago this person blessed his god for not making him a woman, as he did like five thousand times before.<\/p>\n<p>So: Either this guy speaks things without really meaning them, or he really believes in this sh*t. Either way, how much would you now trust his arguments about quantum mechanics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Blessed be he who has not made me a woman&#8230; Blessed be he who has not made me a gentile&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; This is part of the Morning Prayer, spoken regularly by religious Jewish men. Doesn&#8217;t sound good, right? There are tons of explanations and excuses for this &#8220;enlightened&#8221; text. Some say it&#8217;s actually meant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9,27,38,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-humanist","category-judaism","category-racism","category-ritual","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}