Religion and Spirituality in relation to feminism is a very deep well that I am going to briefly try to dive into.  I was quite interested while reading this chapter.  I liked that both sides, the empowerment and oppression of women through religion and spirituality were address.  I felt I could identify more with the oppression views though.  I do believe spirituality is extremely important in our daily lives as women but I think that the majorit of organized religion do oppress women, either intentionally or by accident.  I will point out this specific example because it is something i have actually witnessed myself.  I really dislike that some religions attempt to dictate whether or not a woman uses birth control and her rights to abortion.  I know of a woman, married with one child, who converted to Catholicism and stop using birth control, not this really isn’t such a big deal except that she and her husband could barely support themselves and their first child as it was.  They were on state funded health insurance and in fact her mother was helping them out alot with groceries and daycare etc.  Now can you really justify that God does not want you to take steps to prevent  pregnancies when you can’t even take care of the child you have.  I don’t think so, or at least the God I believe in doesn’t. 

~ by terbear on November 26, 2007.