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• 1 Trevor Blake // Nov 22, 2006 at 6:51 pm

  The Church of Satan is the only religion worth a damn when it comes to ‘minorities.’ At least as far as bedrock documents go. The Satanic Bible is right on the money, whether or not any particular Satanist is. The rest? Fuck ‘em.

• 2 Fell the Don // Nov 22, 2006 at 6:58 pm

  That was extremely enlightening, thank you.

  I’m willing to bet the aforementioned religions have more members than the Church of Satan. They are probably a bit more of an international influence in shaping the status quo.

  But when the Church of Satan begins to dictate national policy anywhere in the world, we’ll be sure to send a memorandum to those of the gender and urge them to relocate.

• 3 Klintron // Nov 22, 2006 at 10:28 pm

  I’m not quite seeing your point Don.

  And to Trevor - what about Thelema? Again, individual Thelemites aside (Crowley himself was a real bastard), the religion holds an equal place for all men and women.

  I suppose the catch is that Thelema and Satanism are both fairly new, small religions. There are probably plenty of other small time religions like them that have an equal place for women, but none of them have much influence in the world (is that what you were getting at Don?).

  The world’s major religions are patriarchal rubbish.

• 4 Fell the Don // Nov 22, 2006 at 10:36 pm

  

  He\’s tackling aspects of the world that affect the lives of billions of women. Perhaps he\’ll get around to writing on the relatively insignificant portion of women involved in Satanism after he\’s covered the more prominent religious orders.

• 5 brad // Nov 23, 2006 at 6:59 pm

  I have actually had it in mind for quite some time to write more extensively on women within “smaller” movements - from gnosticism to hermetic societies to modern Christian ‘cults’ and others.

  You will notice that the above links are simply quick overviews with maybe some minor arguments. For those really interested in patriarchy and world religions there are about a thousand or so books.

  But like Fell said, Satanism and other movements have an extremely minute impact on world affairs - and the impact that they do have is often for entertainment value through perverted perspectives. The way women are treated in this world is more often than not a direct effect of major world religions, as Klinton so elegantly put it: “The world’s major religions are patriarchal rubbish.”

  I am hesistant to say, however, whether any religion is inherently patriarchal - but nor would I admit that patriarchy is simply an outcome of cultural institutions and power struggle.

  Question: What IF Satanism or any other ‘minor’ religious movement became a dominant institution? How would it effect the conditions of women in the world? Would its current views change?

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