Naomi Sherer reviews... WOMEN |
Thought-provoking articles and quotations by women who were not afraid to speak their minds in centuries past. The women are foremothers of the women's movement whose dedication continues to inspire us to challenge the inequities that still exist in our lives. Here are exerpts from
|
"Take again, glancing over history, the fashion in which Christian nations have ever dealt with savage tribes. Charlemagne Christianised the Saxons with fire and sword, breaking them into the obedience of the Church. The Spaniards Christianized the Peruvians in similar fashion, turning the happy flowery land of the Sun into a slave-filled shambles. The English have Christianised Indians and Africans, Maories and Australians, in good old historic manner by murder and fraud and theft. Look where we will at the treatment experienced by the savage at Christian hands, and we find ever the same old story--cruelty that sickens, treachery that disgusts, brutality that appals. "Christianity is the nursing mother of social evil, for it winks at all oppression by the wealthy, and condones every crime in the believer. "The new creed which is arising in the place of Christianity gains a hearing very largely because of the failure of the religion which it is seeking to destroy. Instead of meeting poverty with a benediction, it regards it as a curse to be abolished by better social arrangements. Disease to it is not the scourge of God, but the scourge of dirt and ignorance, to be broken by cleanliness and knowledge. Sin to it is not an object of divine wrath, but a subject for human skill, to be cured by healthy environment." Quoted from "Women Without Superstition" |
Annie Laurie Gayler
|
WOMEN WITHOUT SUPERSTITION
|
Consider novels by Naomi Sherer available on Amazon
Coming Soon: Beyond Namche, The Open Door, Wildly in the Rockies
Send mail to Webmaster
regarding any questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 1997 - 2010 - Salmon River Gazette - All Rights Reserved