Church Quote by Anonymous

“I believe that most, if not all, of the restrictions on women in society have no basis in Scripture, and that those maintained in…

— Roger Nicole

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy…

— Harper Lee

The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people…

— Hozier

“The Church’s war against women occurred not under Christ—who by all accounts held women as equals to men—but through the writings of St Irenaeus…

— Matthew Reilly

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and…

— Tony Campolo

“The simple and fact is that misogyny is fundamental to the basic writings of Christianity and it is such an intricate part of religious…

— Al Stefanelli

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

— G. Campbell Morgan

“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern…

— John G. Stackhouse Jr

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

— Barbara Tuchman