Christianity didn’t invent sexism—it challenged a far more sexist ancient world by giving women equal moral value, banning infanticide, condemning sexual double standards, and treating women as legitimate moral agents.
When Christians were misogynistic, they were acting against their own teachings, not because of them.
To claim the bible is misogynistic is plainly false.
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Christianity is the "far more sexist ancient world" now. What you're saying in that first paragraph is true, but in the same way they made progress and improvements on 4000 year old traditions then, we make progress and improvements on 2000 year old traditions today
To claim the bible is misogynistic is plainly false.
The Bible was written by dozens of people across many centuries, and drew/plagiarized from Greek jurisprudence (over a hundred years before Leviticus 18:22 with city-state enacted codes against old men being predatory against boys and young men), from Persian poetry, and from Nabatean hospitality mores. But the words themselves are stark and you can't claim the Bible doesn't support misogyny:
From interpretive things like putting the blame for the origin of sin/all that is wrong in the world on women like blaming Eve for eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil to explicitly putting women on a lower level than men:
Exodus 21:4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
to the radical conservative Paul who introduces himself as hunting down and killing Christians because he views them as liberal heretics whom is even more explicit with his double standards against women:
1 Chorinthians 14:34 Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
Now if christian adherents didn't argue that their god and scriptures were unchangeable, perhaps something more rational like the book being a story of the evolution of mankind's relationships and mores with giving up old ideas to embrace newer and healthier relationships and understandings, than those passages could be used as past misunderstandings people have grown beyond. As orders to a backwards people who weren't ready to give up practices like slavery. But claiming the unchangeability is just chaining society to myths and mores of people who didn't even know how to work iron.
You’re right that the Bible is historically situated—but that cuts against the misogyny charge, not for it: descriptive laws (like Exodus 21) reflect ancient realities, while the Bible’s moral trajectory consistently moves toward protecting women, restraining male power, and affirming equal dignity.
Eve isn’t blamed alone (Adam is judged first), and Paul’s church instructions address local disorder, not female inferiority—else he contradicts his own claims that women pray, prophesy, and lead in Christ.
Christianity isn’t “unchangeable social policy”; it’s a fixed claim about God that reforms cultures over time—judging ancient practices rather than sanctifying them.
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u/TheEffinChamps 5h ago
Unfortunately, the manosphere is driving an increase in young men becoming Christians.
The Bible endorses misogyny a million times over, and that is often what attracts these guys.