while surfing the net one day I came across this
I was shocked but not totally surprised. This explains in some measure the attitude of the Judeo/Christian community towards women. This attitude has existed for centuries.
Highlighted text by me.
http://earlychristianwritings.com/text/patriarchs.html
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
References in Origen (Hom. in Joshua. 15.6) and Jerome (Tractatus de Psalmo 15) show that the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs existed in some form in the second century CE.
I.-The Testament of Reuben Concerning Thoughts
5. Hurtful are women, my children; because, since they have no power or strength over the man, they act subtilly through outward guise how they may draw him to themselves; and whom they cannot overcome by strength, him they overcome by craft. For moreover the angel of God told me concerning them, and taught me that women are overcome by the spirit of fornication more than men, and they devise in their heart against men; and by means of their adornment they deceive first their minds, and instil the poison by the glance of their eye, and then they take them captive by their doings, for a woman cannot overcome a man by force.
Therefore flee fornication, my children, and command your wives and your daughters that they adorn not their heads and their faces; because every woman who acteth deceitfully in these things hath been reserved to everlasting punishment. For thus they allured the Watchers 6 before the flood; ( oh yes we are the cause of the whole flood thing. The lives of all those people swept away by the flood are on the bloody hands of womankind!) and as these continually beheld them, they fell into desire each of the other, and they conceived the act in their mind, and changed themselves into the shape of men, and appeared to them in their congress with their husbands; and the women, having in their minds desire toward their apparitions, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven. 7
6. Beware, therefore, of fornication; and if you wish to be pure in your mind, guard your senses against every woman. And command them likewise not to company with men, that they also be pure in their mind. For constant meetings, even though the ungodly deed be not wrought, are to them an irremediable disease, and to us an everlasting reproach of Beliar; for fornication hath neither understanding nor godliness in itself, and all jealousy dwelleth in the desire thereof. Therefore ye will be jealous against the sons of Levi, and will seek to be exalted over them; but ye shall not be able, for God will work their avenging, and ye shall die by an evil death. For to Levi the Lord gave the sovereignty, and to Judah, 8 and to me also with them, 9 and to Dan and Joseph, that we should be for rulers. Therefore I command you to hearken to Levi, because he shall know the law of the Lord, and shall give ordinances for judgment and sacrifice for all Israel until the completion of the times of Christ, the High Priest whom the Lord hath declared. I adjure you by the God of heaven to work truth each one with his neighbour; and draw ye near to Levi in humbleness of heart, that ye may receive a blessing from his mouth. For he shall bless Israel; and specially Judah, because him hath the Lord chosen to rule over all the peoples. And worship we his Seed, because He shall die for us in wars visible and invisible, and shall be among you an everlasting king.
7. And Reuben died after that he had given command to his sons; and they placed him in a coffin until they bore him up from Egypt, and buried him in Hebron in the double 10 cave where his fathers were.
And to not be outdone by Reuben, up steps the WTS.
Discussing the reasons, a Seattle, Washington, police official in charge of the city?s sex-crime investigation department stated: ?Our whole moral climate, our attitudes toward sex and the dress of the women have to be the causes.? He also stated that the ?increased exposure to pornography has contributed to the rise in reported rapes.?
Womankind must share the blame. To begin with, until the age of five or six years, the most vital period, little boys have their personalities molded by women, their mothers. And as they grow up, it is usually the mother that has the most opportunities to inculcate in her son respect for womankind, both by word and by example. But by far too many mothers have come short in this regard. Especially and specifically blameworthy are those female relatives, such as an aunt or even a mother , who have used boys as sexual playthings, thereby starting them on a road that leads to their having aggressive feelings toward women.
A new American motion picture star who aims to occupy the place once held by America?s previous sex symbol brags about her charms and about her ability to arouse men by displaying herself in motion pictures. Such actresses must also share in the blame for the increase in rapes, for after men have seen them on the screen they frequently go out and attack a woman who may be the paragon of virtue.
Awake, March 8, 1974 page 15
That has got to be the most disgusting three paragraphs they have printed concerning women. How dare they put the blame of rape on women. Not just the victim but all women.
Loris