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[-] SCB@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Patriarchy predates monotheistic religions by quite some time, and was not (is not) religiously codified into all polytheistic religions. Hinduism for example is not explicitly patriarchal. Patriarchy in ancient Greece was similarly not explicitly religiously-motivated - rather, Ancient Greeks imposed their (at the time, current) cultural norms upon their religion, which was significantly more malleable than modern monotheistic (e.g. Abrahamic) religions.

In fact, very strong arguments can be made that patriarchy shaped religion, as opposed to the other way around.

See Romans in the Bible, for an easily-googleable example of one man imposing his personal ideas onto a nascent church.

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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