Archive for October 23rd, 2012
Where’s OUR “Waldensian Dissent”? They let women preach in 1200 AD. Today, We PAY (private and public) Religious Groups who still won’t!
What they did, and endured, should not be forgotten — or dismissed.
As it turns out, the Inquisition was essentially developed, in part, to attack this one group, who began with (it seems) one wealthy merchant in Lyons — having heard some of the Bible addressed to a rich man (which he was) — decided to actually do it. At this time, perhaps only 10% of the population was literate, and the language of science and religion was Latin. The man, how undoubtedly read his own language (being a merchant) got some translators — and the rest is history.
This group was Ahead of their Times as we are over 800 yrs later, Behind Theirs.
From 1179 AD, Who practiced what they preached – men AND women
From what I can tell, neither armies (whether of Kings or of Popes) exterminated them in their scattered and clandestine state — but apparently an ecumenical appeal to join the Reformation — quit wandering around preaching and stay put, build your own churches (which took place in 1532, by which time this group must have been exhausted, terrorized, and barely holding on, though holding on they certainly were) — and shortly AFTER that some of the worst massacres took place.
This just goes to show what can happen when a group of people makes a determine to practice what is preached, and gets its own access to the information (in this case, it happened to be primarily the Bible), and starts thinking independently about propaganda. And, in this case, from the start it appears that women were allowed to speak, and even preach. I am sure the literacy level improved in the process — but they took on the litterati of the era.
So what are we, in the USA doing now? We are contributing to the church that is called the Federal Government (at least of late) and asking it for protection, social services, and our money’s worth. We are not organizing to get the Executive Order rescinded of 2001 which helps deactivate just over HALF the population of the land (the female half) within religious orders, but allowing certain chosen figureheads (male and female) to rise to the top, in an effort to make sure more don’t have a true voice in raising their own kids, or an equal shot at survival economically — should they have children and not get or stay married.
I excerpted this from the post about “Christian Sects in the Statehouse.” I really believe as a whole, we do not accept how much of religious dogma — the negative and the positive — has saturated our culture, particularly the justice and legal systems.
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