Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Challenging Religion through the Women’s Right

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Challenging Religion through the Womens Right battlefrontElizabeth Cady Stanton was a powerful writer who believed on the abolition of slavery and that womens voice should be heard. Stanton, along with other members of the woman suffrage trans achieve recognized how the Christian Church supported mens despotic behavior toward women. She realized that womens position in the Church became so deteriorated that horrifying acts against women became justified and accepted by the public. The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with idol, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the estate degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they denominate her, her emancipation is impossible. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote these lines in the Womans Bible as a wake up call for women who were accepting and taking for granted their testify value in the eyes of God. Moreover, Stanton was aware that she was fighting against an institution that has interpreted away womens rights from its sacred books and conveniently has created a patriarchal area that was the setting for a perpetuate abuse against womens rights. The words of doubting Thomas Aquinas, the thirteenth century Christian theologian, summarizes what the Church and society itself followed and still believed during the nineteenth century woman was created to be mans help meet, that her unique role is in conceptionsince for other purposes men would be better assisted by other men. Cady Stanton revises the Bible in 1881, considering that this action was needed, since no women participa... ... not acceptable according to the Christian Holy book. Therefore, solutions to womens issues regarding mens oppressive acts can be heard and Gods word would not be hold responsible for sexist behaviors that keep women into the darkness of silence.ReferencesBlaney, Mary. Role of Women in the Catholic Church. 14 April 2004. http//www.votf.org/ document/A WomansPlace.htmlTrinity Stores Icons and Art, Religious Gifts, Catholic & Christian Products. 14 April 2004.http//www.trinitystores.com/main.php4? full point=39&artist=1Women and the World. 14 April 2004. http//www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/demeier/women/women.htmlSchools of 19th Century Christian Feminism. 14 April 2004. http//www.erasofelegance.com/gender2.htmlStanton, Cady Elizabeth. The Womans Bible. The Complete Text in twain Volumes 14 April 2004http//www.undelete.org/library/library0041.html