re: #46 Jaerik

No, I’m agreeing with it. =) Restriction of women’s rights iS the entire issue.

Then don’t put it in general terms about controlling sexuality. It’s almost entirely about controlling women’s sexuality.

My observation was that WHY is restricting women’s rights so prevalent? Yes, it’s because most of these religious originated in ancient times. But per your own point, even relatively more modern, secular instances of such awfulness (i.e. Nazi eugenics) tend to rely on controlling female sexuality.

No, that’s not true. Eugenics is not about controlling female sexuality, it’s about sterilizing ‘unfit’ people of either gender and preventing their reproduction as a group.

Why would both an ancient religious institution, and a modern secular one, both independently come to the same method of barbaric control?

They didn’t. Eugenics focuses on sterilization of both genders, or ‘forcing’ the marriage of two people.

So the rest of your argument doesn’t really follow, because your premise is flawed.