E.R.DidNothingWrong
Mentally Strong - Physically Retarded
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There are several quotes of men renowned for their intelligence, wisdom, piety, and some who are literally canonized saints, who think women are Stupid, Immoral, and Lesser than Men;
And people look back and will say "Oh, these guys got everything right except that. They were wrong about that one thing.
For it is improper for a woman to speak in an assembly, no matter what she says,
even if she says admirable things, or even saintly things, that is of little
consequence, since they come from the mouth of a woman. –Origen (d. 258): Fragments on First Corinthians, 74
I don’t see what sort of help woman was created to provide man with, if one excludes procreation. If woman is not given to man for help in bearing children, for what help could she be? To till the earth together? If help were needed for that, man would have been a better help for man. The same goes for comfort in solitude. How much more pleasure is it for life and conversation when two friends live together than when a man and a woman cohabitate? –Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Regius (354 – 430): De genesi ad litteram, 9, 5-9
. . . woman was given to man, woman who was of small intelligence and who perhaps still lives more in accordance with the promptings of the inferior flesh than by superior reason. Is this why the apostle Paul does not attribute the image of God to her? –Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Regius (354 – 430): De Genesi ad literam,11, 42
But in a secondary sense the image of God is found in man, and not in woman: for man is the beginning and end of woman; as God is the beginning and end of every creature. -Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274): Summa Theologica I, qu. 93, art. 4 ad 1
But woman is naturally of less strength and dignity than man . . . -Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274): Summa Theologica I, qu. 93, art. 1 ad 2
And people look back and will say "Oh, these guys got everything right except that. They were wrong about that one thing.