I was suspicious of the Bible. It had never been particularly forthcoming when it came to stories about women. Mary Magdalene wasn’t really a hooker, and Eve didn’t force Adam to eat that apple. What did painting women as untrustworthy or whorish have to do with God’s love anyway? Those stories weren’t even about women directly. They were stories about men in which women had side roles as the mother or the second wife or the daughter-for-sale. The fact that I grew up in a religious household and had never heard of Sophia further proved to me that the people interpreting the Bible were
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