Zone1 The Handmaid's Tale: A Perversion of Christianity

[SweetSue92]

I began watching The Handmaid's Tale recently (yes, I'm late to the series). I have always loved dystopian stories, and this one features great storytelling and world-building.

But Gilead is a perversion of Christianity, and uses the faith only as a tool to control society.

Notably in season one is the use of fertile handmaids to give wives babies. To justify this, Gilead quotes the Old Testament women who had their husbands sleep with their servants in order to give them children.

But the flaw is this: just because the Bible RECORDS it doesn't mean the Bible ENDORSES it. Nowhere did God give this decree, which is adultery. The idea stemmed solely from desperate women. Once the deed is done, God can use sinful people and even sinful actions to His end. But He did not either command or endorse the sin.

This fallacy of recording vs. endorsing is all over the series, such as when the Commanders visit the Jezebels. Again, yes, there are prostitutes recorded in the Bible. Nowhere does God endorse it.

Still, we have mainly Leftist women dressing in handmaid's garb to "fight the patriarchy", often citing Christianity as the patriarchal foe. I would say, hey, Tehran is sitting right over here.....

 

[hadit]

I began watching The Handmaid's Tale recently (yes, I'm late to the series). I have always loved dystopian stories, and this one features great storytelling and world-building.

But Gilead is a perversion of Christianity, and uses the faith only as a tool to control society.

Notably in season one is the use of fertile handmaids to give wives babies. To justify this, Gilead quotes the Old Testament women who had their husbands sleep with their servants in order to give them children.

But the flaw is this: just because the Bible RECORDS it doesn't mean the Bible ENDORSES it. Nowhere did God give this decree, which is adultery. The idea stemmed solely from desperate women. Once the deed is done, God can use sinful people and even sinful actions to His end. But He did not either command or endorse the sin.

This fallacy of recording vs. endorsing is all over the series, such as when the Commanders visit the Jezebels. Again, yes, there are prostitutes recorded in the Bible. Nowhere does God endorse it.

Still, we have mainly Leftist women dressing in handmaid's garb to "fight the patriarchy", often citing Christianity as the patriarchal foe. I would say, hey, Tehran is sitting right over here.....

A lot of people like to use Christianity as a whipping post who don't really know much about it.

It is interesting how western feminists love to protest where they know it's a legally protected activity but don't have diddly to say about women actually being oppressed. "I'm mad because men can be topless in public while I can't" is a far cry from, "I can be legally beaten if someone sees me walking around without a male relative or if my hair is uncovered or if my ankle is showing".

Which one gets the attention of American feminists?

 

[SweetSue92]

A lot of people like to use Christianity as a whipping post who don't really know much about it.

It is interesting how western feminists love to protest where they know it's a legally protected activity but don't have diddly to say about women actually being oppressed. "I'm mad because men can be topless in public while I can't" is a far cry from, "I can be legally beaten if someone sees me walking around without a male relative or if my hair is uncovered or if my ankle is showing".

Which one gets the attention of American feminists?

Exactly this.

I haven't looked into it, but I guess Atwood denies the story is based on the Iranian Revolution. I know for sure she's a hard Leftist, but like all great authors, she created a piece that transcends her own viewpoint. So whether she likes it or not, we can clearly see the parallels between her work and radical Islam.

 

[TNHarley]

A lot of people like to use Christianity as a whipping post who don't really know much about it.

It is interesting how western feminists love to protest where they know it's a legally protected activity but don't have diddly to say about women actually being oppressed. "I'm mad because men can be topless in public while I can't" is a far cry from, "I can be legally beaten if someone sees me walking around without a male relative or if my hair is uncovered or if my ankle is showing".

Which one gets the attention of American feminists?

TN has an old law that husbands can legally beat their wives on the courthouse steps on Sunday. Guess what group of religious people made that law.
HINT: It wasnt muzzies.

 

[hadit]

TN has an old law that husbands can legally beat their wives on the courthouse steps on Sunday. Guess what group of religious people made that law.
HINT: It wasnt muzzies.

When was the last time it was enforced?

 

[TNHarley]

When was the last time it was enforced?

Of course, that is completely irrelevant.

 

[hadit]

Of course, that is completely irrelevant.

If you're trying to equate a situation where an obsolete law is completely superceded by more recent laws that would put a man in prison for beating his wife with a situation where women still are, to this day, beaten for walking in public without a male relative or for allowing their hair or an ankle to be visible, I can't help you.

Again, the question is, why are western feminists outraged at faux oppression and utterly silent on actual oppression?

 

[Zincwarrior]

But Gilead is a perversion of Christianity, and uses the faith only as a tool to control society.

Yes, I would submit thats the whole point of the novel and series.

 

[TNHarley]

If you're trying to equate a situation where an obsolete law is completely superceded by more recent laws that would put a man in prison for beating his wife with a situation where women still are, to this day, beaten for walking in public without a male relative or for allowing their hair or an ankle to be visible, I can't help you.

Again, the question is, why are western feminists outraged at faux oppression and utterly silent on actual oppression?

Well, thank god christians arent like that anymore. 2000 years of death and oppression, and they finally grew out of it. The muzzies have an extra 600 years. Maybe they will put that time to good use.

 

[martybegan]

A lot of people like to use Christianity as a whipping post who don't really know much about it.

It is interesting how western feminists love to protest where they know it's a legally protected activity but don't have diddly to say about women actually being oppressed. "I'm mad because men can be topless in public while I can't" is a far cry from, "I can be legally beaten if someone sees me walking around without a male relative or if my hair is uncovered or if my ankle is showing".

Which one gets the attention of American feminists?

One also has to remember in the world of the Handmaid's tale there is a massive loss of human female fertility, that leads to the creation of the authoritarian patriarchal State. Said State is a reaction to the potential dying off of the human species.

 

[hadit]

One also has to remember in the world of the Handmaid's tale there is a massive loss of human female fertility, that leads to the creation of the authoritarian patriarchal State. Said State is a reaction to the potential dying off of the human species.

There you go, looking into why something is done. You know that just gets in the way of a good narrative.

 

[TNHarley]

uses the faith only as a tool to control society.

Isnt that most religions? Especially Christianity?
"you have free will, but dont make the wrong choice, or you will burn for eternity!"
"Dont be gay, or god will kill our entire civilization!"
"dont pray to the cow, or god will kill all of our babies!"
Christians even use the religion as an excuse for societal breakdown. "We need to bring god back into society and schools!" Thats basically a Freudian slip for wanting to control society through the tool of religion.

 

[martybegan]

There you go, looking into why something is done. You know that just gets in the way of a good narrative.

If you read the intro (I read the book in High School) The premise is the story is being read during a "Caucasian Studies" Class sometime in the future, implying the dying off or weakening of European people and Culture.

It's basically political BDSM for white women.

 

[Mac-7]

I began watching The Handmaid's Tale recently (yes, I'm late to the series). I have always loved dystopian stories, and this one features great storytelling and world-building.

But Gilead is a perversion of Christianity, and uses the faith only as a tool to control society.

Notably in season one is the use of fertile handmaids to give wives babies. To justify this, Gilead quotes the Old Testament women who had their husbands sleep with their servants in order to give them children.

But the flaw is this: just because the Bible RECORDS it doesn't mean the Bible ENDORSES it. Nowhere did God give this decree, which is adultery. The idea stemmed solely from desperate women. Once the deed is done, God can use sinful people and even sinful actions to His end. But He did not either command or endorse the sin.

This fallacy of recording vs. endorsing is all over the series, such as when the Commanders visit the Jezebels. Again, yes, there are prostitutes recorded in the Bible. Nowhere does God endorse it.

Still, we have mainly Leftist women dressing in handmaid's garb to "fight the patriarchy", often citing Christianity as the patriarchal foe. I would say, hey, Tehran is sitting right over here.....

I have not watched the show but the advertisements are spooky enough to keep me away

This is slander of Christians disguised as harmless theater by godless heathen libs

 

[Hafar1014]

I began watching The Handmaid's Tale recently (yes, I'm late to the series). I have always loved dystopian stories, and this one features great storytelling and world-building.

But Gilead is a perversion of Christianity, and uses the faith only as a tool to control society.

Notably in season one is the use of fertile handmaids to give wives babies. To justify this, Gilead quotes the Old Testament women who had their husbands sleep with their servants in order to give them children.

But the flaw is this: just because the Bible RECORDS it doesn't mean the Bible ENDORSES it. Nowhere did God give this decree, which is adultery. The idea stemmed solely from desperate women. Once the deed is done, God can use sinful people and even sinful actions to His end. But He did not either command or endorse the sin.

This fallacy of recording vs. endorsing is all over the series, such as when the Commanders visit the Jezebels. Again, yes, there are prostitutes recorded in the Bible. Nowhere does God endorse it.

Still, we have mainly Leftist women dressing in handmaid's garb to "fight the patriarchy", often citing Christianity as the patriarchal foe. I would say, hey, Tehran is sitting right over here.....

The whole point of Christianity is control. Thats they they created original sin hell and devil. To force obedience or you burn in hell.
The Bible is an allegory.