Quote Originally Posted by LordSmaug
You know... Jesus was kind of the first women's rights activist. He was always trying to make women equal with men and he always described them as being that way. If I remember correctly he said something to the effect of

"Men and Women are equal because Women came from Man's rib, and Men are Born of Women"
Huh? Nowhere in the Gospels does Jesus proclaim the equality of men and women. Jesus doesn't really say a whole lot about the role of women in society, and nowhere in my Bible can I find a quote like this. Which is completely inexcusable of course. A perfect intelligence would have been able to see the oppression of women around him and would have made himself very clear that it is not okay. Other parts of the New Testament however show the views of early Christians on women, such as 1 Corinthians 11:3-9:
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Or Ephesians 5:22-24:
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
If Jesus said something else, whoever wrote those passages must have forgotten it.
That's definitly no where near a textual quote but that's the way I remember it... I know it's in there. And I'm sure some of the early church leaders where Racist/Sexist too... That's just human nature.
It's human nature to be racist and sexist?! Dude, what have you been huffing? Racism and sexism come from one's social surroundings. If one is brought up in racist and sexist surroundings, one is likely to be a racist sexist. But if you have hippie parents like me, you learn to abhor discrimination. Hateful ideas are not built into our genes. They are learned. And if you ask me, Jesus should have said something about racism, sexism and slavery, so such ideas could have been unlearned millennia before the concept of civil rights was invented.