Colonial Christian doctrine taught that women were the origin of sin.
Evidence
The brutal treatment of enslaved black women by white men exposed the depths of male hatred of woman and woman’s body. Such treatment was a direct consequence of misogynist attitudes toward women that prevailed in colonial American society. In fundamentalist Christian teaching woman was portrayed as an evil sexual temptress, the bringer of sin into the world. Sexual lust originated with her and men were merely the victims of her wanton power. Socialization of white men to regard women as their moral downfall led to the development of anti-woman sentiment. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 88
Categorization
- XREF: Links to feminist theology critiques and to hooks’s later chapters on how racist and sexist ideologies intertwine. — connects to: Augustine’s original-sin doctrine suppressed the Pauline no-provoke framework in Western practice — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 2772; Dark skin signified sin and the devil in Christian theology from the fifth century.; Church Fathers cast woman as the literal gateway through which evil entered the world. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 364
Related
- Church Fathers cast woman as the literal gateway through which evil entered the world. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Augustine’s original-sin doctrine suppressed the Pauline no-provoke framework in Western practice
#expands(0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 2772 - Dark skin signified sin and the devil in Christian theology from the fifth century.
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