From the beginning of the Christian Bible there are some problematic writings. The two stories of creation, the Elohist and the Yahwist one. The first states that God created man and woman at the same time and in his image. The latter suggests that God created woman from man's rib. This Yahwist creation story forces women into a subordinate role to men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton talked about this in her book The Woman's Bible. He also says that "[t]he Bible cannot be accepted or rejected as a whole, its teachings are varied, and its lessons differ widely from one another," which explains why it is virtually impossible to get people to ignore the second story misogynistic (Stanton 13 ). People take the Bible literally and often seem blind to the contradictions in the stories which can be very dangerous like this one
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