Attitudes toward women and gender roles are cultural, not religious.
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Religion is a part of culture.
Look up the definition and prove it to yourself.
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DL
Eh - not really. One can participate more or less or or not at all in religion, but one doesn't really have a choice on culture.
One's culture is what one is made of and where one comes from. It determines literally everything, down to how you talk, how you walk, when, how and what you eat and how you take a dump; where and how you live, all the things you do and all the things you don't do; what everything means, what's more valuable and what's worthless. Religion determines what you do in your place of worship and what you "should" be doing/not doing in daily life. But if the religion says one thing and culture says another, culture will always win.
How one addresses the opposite sex is absolutely cultural, has jack squat to do with what one's religion says. Religion tries to get a hand in there at the time of a wedding but in the Grand Dynamic it's no more significant than Arnold Horshack desperately trying to be noticed from the back of the room.
When we start dating or set up housekeeping with a mate, we do it according to the guidelines, stories, mores, values and systems our culture gives us, and they're the same structure regardless whether we're Christians, Jews, Buddhists or atheists. Whether that includes men abusing/dominating women, and exactly how, and to what degree, is all dictated by the unwritten laws of that culture -- and more specifically your particular
subculture: whether you're urban, suburban, rural, from the North or South, etc. Whether the religion agrees, disagrees or has no opinion.
An extreme example would be "honor" killing. No religion allows it and every religion where it's coincident prohibits it; yet certain cultures still practice it -- despite their own religious prohibitions. Culture trumps both religion and law, every time.
Whether your religion addresses it or not, and regardless what it says on the matter, if you have a patriarchal
culture, then patriarchy is simply the accepted system and that's how it will go down, until the culture changes.
