Do you Hate Women? Religion Does.

Is hate towards women the logical consequence of hate towards intelligence? The original sin, the wrongdoing, and the wish for knowledge were all caused because of Eve. Back in the day of the Garden of Eden, Adam is satisfied by everything commanded by his circus master, and is living an empty and simple life. When the snake speaks to Eve, an everyday thing –because it is known for a fact that snakes talk- Eve is tempted. So the snake is tempting and Eve is tempted, therefore women are tempting for the rest of humanity, an easy conclusion to reach.

The hate towards women is a variation of the hate towards intelligence and knowledge by the church, a summative of the hatred towards everything which they represent, passion, pleasure and life. Women give passion and also life, which means that they represent the original sin, explained by Saint Augustin by being transmitted though birth inside women by the parent’s sperm, sexualization of guilt, an effective tool to control people.

This is supported by the bible itself, women are, after all, an extension from Adan’s ribs, something created after men, for the sole purpose of serving them. Sexist societies are not caused by men, they are not the ones to blame, because the guilt lies on religion, at least on the three monotheistic powers that dominate the world. In the bible and the Quran women are there as an accessory to men. To cook, look after them, and raise their children, they shouldn’t, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, be a source of pleasure and love.

This is according to the bible, and has just been changing in the last 30 years or so, where men’s equality with women are finally leveling up. A perfect example of this phenomenon is Sweden. A country characterized by the great majority of their population being atheist and also being the first country to have an almost perfect balance of equality between men and women, clearly because of the “blessing” of being an atheist country. In fact, they do know what is really important for people, using old church buildings to host libraries and support their education system. Which is paradoxical because of the hatred of the three monotheistic powers towards intelligence and knowledge.

 

The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza)

“Dazzlingly ambitious, beautifully filmed, and thoroughly enthralling, The Great Beauty offers virtuoso filmmaking from writer/director Paolo Sorrentino.” Rotten Tomatoes.

This film explores a society in decay, centering in the life of the socialite in XXI century Rome. Sorrentino takes the viewers through a visual bath of eccentricities and pleasures, showing the life of a journalist at the age of 65, who reflects upon the emptiness and superficiality of his life. The tittle ‘The Great Beauty’ is the struggle for something valuable, something far deeper than aesthetics and superficiality, something deeply profound that defines life when understood. This provokes an implicit dramatic development that requires a sensible and active viewer to fully comprehended and understand the protagonist’s thoughts and actions, which differ from the thoughts of society. Jep Gambardella -the main character- has the spiritual ability to find beauty in simple things, from the roof at his bedroom on which he sees the sea, to the beauty he finds in a spiritual relation with an erotic dancer. The film is charged with surrealism which allows the unconscious to express itself by delightful and illogical scenes precisely captured by the camera. A giraffe in roman ruins being part of a magic trick. A tourist dying because of the beauty of Rome. A symbolical death of an existential Jesus. And finally a cardinal more focused on culinary arts than religion, expressing the complexity of life in a society that is in decay, and also the current state of the catholic lie. The photography in this movie portrays the beauty of ancient and modern Rome, being a key complement to the tittle and producing a feast to the eyes. Which is the extended to the ears by music specially selected, reinforcing the mood and the emotions transmitted to through the movie, giving another dimension to the art spectrum that the movie is alluding.