Martijn BAARDADec 26, 2022
After only one year of Taliban rule, girls and women have almost disappeared from Afghan society. They are not allowed to travel, to work alone, to go to public parks, to talk or laugh in public, and they are not allowed to study and to go to school... Photo: Boushra Almutawakel
Show threadPonygirlDec 26, 2022
@baarda "Religion poisons everything"- Hitch
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 26, 2022
@Ponygirl
Not religion but extremism
@baarda
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaDec 26, 2022
@JCF @Ponygirl @baarda All religions prop up the patriarchy. It's part of their business idea.
Show threadJCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧Dec 27, 2022

@LillyHerself
Indeed. But only for "modern"/actual religion.

Minorean religion was matriarcal with a Snake Goddess.
Their were a religion with paleolithic Venus (still used byba minority)
Some other from neolithic and still used by a minority is a kind of Earth/Nature religion (with Mother nature/Gaia/Demeter as Goddess)

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Show threadLillyLyle/Count Melancholia
@JCF @Ponygirl @baarda JCF, I think you are confusing 'animism' with religion. It's easy to do. Also, having goddesses is no guarantee that a religion is not patriarchal. Also remember that what we know of animism or religions from pre-historic times is strictly speaking guesswork.
Dec 28, 2022 at 2:31pmWeb