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Scold your wife sharply, bully and terrify her” is a quotation from a fifteenth century Catholic Church publication called ‘Rules of Marriage’, a “document which does not just condone wife battering but actually recommends it as a meritorious action that will bring spiritual benefit to both husband and wife: to the batterer and battered alike” (Women’s International Network News). This is just one example of the inequality and suffrage that women have suffered in …

…can. But for now women continue to worship in a church full of sexist attitudes. Bibliography Ashe, Kay (1991). “The Feminist Revolution and Religious Education.” Religious Education. P.99 Booth, William D (1993). “The Open Door For Women Preachers.” Journal of Religious Thought. P.108 Chapman, M.L. (1996). Christianity on Trial. New York: Obis Books. The Holy Bible: New King James Version (1982). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers. (1998). “How Organized Religions Support Violence Against Women.” Women’s International Network News. P. 45.