If God was male and woman was not male, then whatever God was, woman was not. St. Augustine spelled it out: “For woman is not the image of God, whereas the man alone is the image of God.” As man stands beneath God in the hierarchy, so the woman, as further removed, comes below him: in practical terms, then, setting every man over every woman, father over mother, husband over wife, brother over sister, grandson over grandmother. In every one of these new systems, God freed man from slavery and took him into partnership for eternity, while women were never even apprenticed to the celestial
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