![]() ![]() This, the authors argue, opens the way for denial of basic rights and all manner of egregious practices - in the name of God. The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (1990), the papal encyclical Mulieris Dignitatem (1988), and the Southern Baptist Convention’s “Faith and Mission Statement” amendment (1998) are all sharply criticised for the ways they reinforce the subordination of women. Later chapters offer a rigorous critique of the way the language of “rights” is increasingly used to close down debate of religious custom and belief, blocking freedom of speech if it involves anything that sounds like criticism. ![]() The passion sustaining this book is not traditional left-of-centre hostility to religion, but white-hot rage at how religion and God are used to justify the unjustifiable. In God’s name, women are buried alive, beaten to death, gang-raped, degraded, and tortured. Does God hate women? Well, as the authors pile up the evidence, it certainly looks like it. SUCH is the visceral horror of the opening pages of this book that you may find it hard to read further. ![]()
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