"Among the Israelites a man customarily paid a dowry for the woman who became his wife, and she was considered his possession. While enjoying many blessings and privileges, hers was the subordinate role in the marital union. Her position is further shown by Deuteronomy 24:1-4, which pointed out that the husband might divorce his wife but said nothing about the wife’s divorcing her husband. Being considered his property, she could not divorce him.
How loving of Hojovah to "bless" females as property of almost greater value than a camel. Wow, that Y chromosome makes all the difference in the eyes of God.
Sadly, the dubs are trapped in the stone age."
Right on, Billy X! What gets me is the total inability of JWs (or, for that matter, anyone following the Christian faith...) who CANNOT see that this behavior is EXACTLY the same as that of a fundamentalist Muslim Arab man in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan!!
My ancestry wasn't Middle Eastern, and I won't worship a god that is!! Nor obey that sort of Middle-Eastern-god's edicts based on Middle Eastern men's attitudes towards their women!
Personally, [this is going to sound weird at first, so wait for it...] I'm GLAD that Muslim countries hobble and handicap their women! This means that Middle Eastern countries won't ever have:
A woman like Hedi Lamarr who came up with variable frequency transmissions, helping the Allies defeat the Germans during WWII... - and, incidentally, laying the foundation for our present cell phone technology...!!
Women like all those "Rosie the Riveters" who picked up the jobs in the arms and munitions factories when the men went off to war - this, by the way, is one of the reasons the '50's had such repressive attitudes towards women - after the war ended, the returning soldiers didn't want to compete with women for the factory jobs, so an atmosphere arose in which women were to be submissive little home-makers, producing children and sitting at home waiting for Daddy's paycheck, instead of competing with him in the factories for that same paycheck.
A woman like Madame Curie, whose discovery has had a HUGE effect on medicine, allowing doctors to take an accurate look inside the human body without destroying it in the process...
A woman like Queen Elizabeth the First, whose rule established many precedents that helped keep England stable and productive for hundreds of years (I'm not discounting the wars; I'm saying she established systems...)
A woman like Faye Glenn Abdellah, whose development of the first tested coronary care unit has saved thousands of lives....
For more women who have added greatly to our lives in Western nations and the non-fundamentalist Muslim nations, here is a website: http://www.greatwomen.org/home.php
If you have the chance for a brief review of these women, think about the fact that any religion that reduces the very productive female half of the species to the level of 'property' would have deprived you of these womens' advances, and future advances to be made by ourselves, our daughters, our granddaughters...
A horrific loss for humanity! But that is what the fundamentalist Muslim nations have done to themselves... As well as the WTBTS and any other organization that views women as 'second-class' citizens or, worse yet, 'property'...
May they be hoist by their own petard!! Zid 
Great post, Rebel8!!!
Be sure to clean the litter box, Troubled Mind!! 
