I’m going to just come right out and say it. God does not love you. And like the common break up trope: it’s not you, it’s him. Except that in this scenario, it’s actually true. From the sexist and borderline misogynistic ideas and beliefs of the Bible. My personal theory is that God resents Eve, and consequently all women for deceiving his precious Adam. His first born son, the first human he ever created betrayed him and chose a woman over him. The resentment bled into hatred and is reflected in the Bible as God prescribes for men to treat women as second class citizens and use them as they see fit. This popular verse comes to mind: “...but the woman for the man”. You as woman, were apparently created for the pleasure and use of men. And you apparently do not have the equivalent right to use men as you see fit. Everything you do should be for men or as men want it, because your life is supposed to be dedicated to them, but not theirs to you. This is one of the many disparities regarding the way the Bible views women, compared to how it views men.

In his supposed magnanimity, the one mistake that he made was to give men the high sex drive that he did. By doing this, he invariably placed a lot of power in the hands of women. You may not consciously realize this, but as a woman, you have a lot of power to will things as you want them to be. Feminism is proof of this. The only reason that patriarchy existed is because women either did not fully realize the advantage they had or because they placed it in the hands of men that they supposedly trusted. Look at the how that turned out? Regardless of all the criticism against feminism, the truth is that women would not have rebelled against male authority, if they felt like they benefitted enough from it. There was something inherently wrong with the system of the past, for it to push women to move from the supposedly safe cushy comfort of their homes and out to the workforce. And the truth is that when you place power and authority too much in the hands of men, they tend to abuse it. Some might argue that it’s not even their fault. They can’t help it. They are men, after all.

Break yourself free from the shackles of cowardice and take what’s yours.