The ways of dealing with women in Europe have been constantly changing. Here it is appropriate to give a description of England as an example. England was a part of the Roman Empire and the Roman rulers had divided it into two provinces - Inferior Britannia and Upper Britannia. (See New English Encyclopedia, Volume 2, pages 846 to 851, entry titled Britain, Purnell and Sons, London, 1965, pages 848 and 862)
In the third century of the Christian era, Buddhist Mongols attacked England and many countries of Europe. Their influence continued till the fourth century. In the fifth century AD, groups of Scots, Picts, Angles and Saxons occupied different parts of England. Due to this, the old rich British people buried their wealth in the ground out of fear of robbers and fled to other countries. Till the seventh century AD, England remained under the control of various groups, different groups in different areas. All those groups were of Indian or Asian origin. Hence all were polytheists, idol worshippers and nature worshippers. Mongols were also polytheists. In the latter half of the seventh century AD, Christianity started spreading in some parts of England and Scotland. A few Christian priests started preaching here and there.
The polytheist warrior Viking tribe was ruling over Norway, Sweden, Denmark etc. These Viking warriors attacked Britain for the first time in 787 AD. They attacked again after 6 years. They spread here and there. In 830 AD, Viking warriors spread to many islands of England in big boats. They started ruling over the people by occupying the areas like Hebrides, Shetland, Archneese etc. By 865 AD, they ruled over a large part of England. Which continued for the next 150 years. The remaining part was occupied by the Saxons. In 1066 AD, the Normans invaded England. There were conflicts among all the groups. By then, the influence of the Pope had spread in Germany. That is why, to get the help of the Pope, the Saxons accepted the subordination of the Church. Thus, England was polytheistic till the 11th century AD. Christianity spread there from the 12th century AD and then the Church, with the help of the rulers, forcibly imposed the anti-women beliefs of Christianity on the society and propagated women as inferior, worthless and soulless. For this, the story of Genesis was distorted and spread.

The condition of women in the 16th century AD was very poor

The way women were treated in Europe from the 12th to the 17th century AD does not fall under any definition of civilization. Till the 16th century AD, women were kept in a very inferior and pitiable condition in Christian Europe. After that, in the wave of Renaissance, people started fiercely opposing the Christian belief of portraying women as inferior, fallen, meek and evil. Then, centuries later, Christianity accepted that women also have a soul. Even then, women were considered to be lacking in reasoning. They got the right to vote only in the twentieth century of Christianity.

Women had to launch movements to get the right to vote

Christian European women had to launch fierce movements for years to get the right to vote. Then, women were given the right to vote in Spain in 1912 AD. Women got the right to vote in Poland, Sweden and Germany in 1919 AD. Women got this right for the first time in Ireland in 1922, and in England in 1928. Women were given the right to vote for the first time in 1946 in Netherlands and Yugoslavia, in 1948 in Belgium, in 1952 in Greece and in 1971 in Switzerland. Whereas in India, women have been participating in the running of Panchayats, guilds and the state since the Vedic period.

Priests saw European women as their enemies

It seems that Christian priests saw the best women of various European civilizations as the biggest enemies of their Christian 'faith'. They took revenge for this by insulting women. Goddesses have been worshipped in all the ancient civilizations of Europe. But in Christianity, God was described as only a man and this male 'God', the god worshipped by Christians, was declared the only 'God'.

Church's tactics to defame women

Women's subordination and inferiority were made an integral part of Christianity from the very beginning. Whatever rules the church made regarding marriage, they increased the inferiority and subordination of women. It was said that Eve tempted Adam and Adam made physical relations with her, Eve committed this fundamental sin. Hence Eve is the source of sin. Four initial conferences of priests were held for the spread of Christianity. The first was held in Nice in 319 AD. In which there were probably less than a dozen priests. Then in the fourth century itself, the second conference was held in Constantinople. There were a total of 40 Christian bishops in it. At the end of the fourth century AD, the third conference was held in Ephesus, in which there were a total of 200 Christian bishops from all over the world. In the middle of the fifth century, the fourth conference was held in Caledonia, in which there were 800-900 bishops. (Thus, by the fifth century AD, the total number of Christians in the world was only in thousands and the total number of bishops was less than a thousand.)
In these four conferences, it was decided that no priest can ever marry. It is better if even ordinary Christians do not marry, because marriage is a sin. (This decision was possible because till then Christians were an insignificant sect.)
When Christianity started spreading more, the priests faced a crisis. If there is a society, then along with men, there is a woman, there is marriage, there is a family. Then it was said that this woman called 'Evil' is necessary because only if she is there, there will be children to spread the good news of Jesus. Very interesting controversies started among the Christian priests on this. Many Christian priests got trapped in the web of words created by their own church and started raising very interesting questions. Some priests asked very naively - when women are bad and sexual relations are the original sin, then why did God create this original sin? Then their bishops found the answer. They said that if Eve, the medium of this devil, had not seduced Adam and made him taste the fruit of the knowledge of sex, then 'God' would have definitely created some other means of procreation. Therefore, all the mess is because of Eve. In a European society where women have been given equal importance and respect for hundreds of years, it was not possible to suddenly declare them reprehensible, fallen and sinful. Therefore, initially there was a lot of hesitation in the Christian church on this issue. Initially, some of the Christian bishops tried to coordinate by arguing that the Holy Spirit played a major role in baptizing Joshua and making him divine and this Holy Spirit is a female power, so divinity should be accepted in women as well. Then, the church decided that those women who are deacons in the church (dedicated church servants working under the bishop) are not sinful. One such deacon was Marcelina, whose followers formed an independent church sect.

Why are only Christian men entitled to immortality?

Some church priests said that since Eve was not created by taking out a rib from Adam, she too was entitled to immortality. Therefore, if a woman does not commit the original sin of marriage and dedicates herself to the service of the church, she will become somewhat like a part of Adam. On this, the argument arose that only a Christian man is entitled to immortality. The answer was given that yes, but only a Christian woman gives birth to that person entitled to immortality. Therefore, some special quality has to be considered in a Christian woman too.
On this, the argument of the original man being bisexual came up. It was said that God is bisexual. He created man in his image. Eve is a part of that man. Therefore, she too is divine but she committed a big sin by arousing the desire for sexual intercourse. Therefore, she is cursed. The divinity of man remains, while the woman has become sinful by being cursed. When a man falls weak due to sex, he also becomes a sinner. But progeny is possible only through marriage. Hence, marriage is a sin but it is also a medium of a good deed (birth of a man). Hence, a woman should always remain in complete subordination to a man and keep washing away her sins by obeying him. This principle has been accepted by the Christian church that if both the man and the woman do not marry and dedicate their lives to the service of the church, then such a life is extremely pure. In the initial lists of people entitled to heaven by Christian priests, it was said that virgins dedicated to the service of the church are the first entitled to heaven.

Why are men God's agents?

Later, the matter of women being cursed started gaining more importance. It was said that women have been cursed specially and God has appointed men as his agent to forcefully apply that curse on women. Hence, men should keep women under their control by imposing maximum restrictions on them.
A Jew named Paul was baptized as a Christian and wrote a detailed law of strict oppression of women. A priest named Augustine gave it full details. These priests believed that God first created Adam but Eve sinned first, not Adam. Therefore, women are punishable by men.

The Christian faith propounded by Paul is that -
1.     Women can never be equal to men.
2.     Women do not have independent conscience, so they are not entitled to take decisions for themselves.
3.     They are not entitled to personal freedom.
4.     Women were not included in the plan of God's original idea of ​​creation. They are the result of an ancillary idea. Therefore, they are an appendage or attachment of men.

All Catholic and Protestant Christians accepted these interpretations of Paul as authentic. Paul himself was a married man. But he had deep hatred towards women. He propounded that man is the head of women as well, he is the master of women. Since then, for centuries, the Christian Church considered woman as the gateway to hell and held her responsible for the destruction of the world and said that her strict suppression was necessary. Wherever this influence of Christianity spread, the ancient ideas about women were destroyed and a new trend of condemning women spread.
In the eighth century, a meeting of priests was held in Winchester. In this, a priest named Dunstan presented strict laws based on misogyny. Most of the priests were of the opinion that women have neither soul nor conscience. From the eighth to the 19th century, all the Christian churches of Europe considered women inferior, sinful, evil and hence suppressible and maintained strict laws for their suppression.

Declare others as companions of Satan and kill and persecute them

Whether it be Christian women or any other sect of Christianity other than the state-authorized Church of Christ (which the ruling Church everywhere had been declaring as heretics) or any other non-Christian religion and sect - Pagan, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu etc., the religious priests have been able to think of only one method for the mad call to destroy all of them - declare all Christian men as special mediums of the Spirit of God and fill them with tremendous enthusiasm and then declare the woman who is to be destroyed (whoever does not fit in the scheme of the priests of a particular sect of Christianity) as the Forces of Evil and Satan or an accomplice of Satan and declare his destruction as a virtuous act. To understand this Christian method, it would be appropriate to briefly understand the origin of the concept of Satan or Satan.

Church context of the concept of Satan

Ellen Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, says in her book 'The Origin of Satan' - No one knows who actually wrote the 'Gospel of Mark'. But it is believed in the church that Mark wrote it. Mark was a disciple of a priest named Peter. He lived at least 50 years after Jesus. The fact is that all European intellectuals outside the church believe that the entire Gospel was written in the 8th century AD. But those who follow the tradition of the church say that it was written in the first century AD. There is a consensus in the church itself that whatever Joshua Christ said or preached, there was no one to write it at that time. Therefore, he is not a first level source. Whatever has been written about him was written many years after his death. Although most of the intellectuals in Europe believe that no person named Jesus Christ ever existed.
Author Ellen Pengels says that all the Gospels that have been written are wartime literature, so it should be considered written by one of the warring parties. The first Gospel was written by a man named Paul. Many years later, Mark wrote it.
She says that a man named Mark was a psychopath and he hated women. He was the one who declared women to be agents of the devil. Mark was the first to present the theory of 'original sin'. According to which the sexual union of man and woman is the original sin, due to which God pushed Adam out of the garden of heaven and cursed him and sent him to earth. The main culprit for this is Eve. Therefore, because of Eve, all women are guilty by birth. He also told that God created the world for seven days and created every creature in pairs, but did not create Adam in a pair. He created him in his own image. God is a man, so he made Adam a man in his own image and God has no goddess, so he did not create a partner for Adam. But one day when Adam looked sad in the garden, God put him to sleep through hypnosis, took out his rib and created a woman from it and gave it to him and told him to live happily with her. But do not have sexual relations.

Seven curses of God on Eve

On the instigation of Satan, Eve persuaded Adam to have sexual pleasure. Both of them had sexual pleasure. When God came to know about this the next day, he cursed them and sent both of them to earth and gave seven curses to Eve. The main ones among them are - you will become a mother, you will conceive, you will have to bear the pain of childbirth, you will have menstruation before conception due to which you will be contaminated every month. You will have to live under Adam's control and always obey him, etc. Thus becoming a mother was a curse and giving birth to a child is a sin in itself. There is only one way to get rid of this sin, that the child and the parents who gave birth to him should take refuge in the church, take an oath to spread the teachings of Jesus and dedicate their life for the church.

Birth is considered a matter of shame
According to this story, coming to earth is in itself a curse, a fall, a sin. That is why every Christian considers birth itself a matter of shame. He imagines that before this he would have lived in heaven. Which would have been a divine experience. Coming to earth is a curse. To get rid of this curse, one has to take refuge in the church. The church tells such a guilt-ridden man that he is cursed because the woman, i.e. Eve, seduced Adam and gave him sexual pleasure. Therefore, sexual relations are a sin and the woman is responsible for it. In this way, the woman is the reason for the downfall of the holy Christian man. Therefore, it is necessary to keep her subservient and under control. Because she can lead men astray anytime by the temptation of the devil. Scholar Karen Armstrong writes that this is the mindset of sex-phobic priests. Such psychopath priests are terrified of sex and afraid of women. Along with this, due to this strange mental illness, priests have persecuted women terribly, which is an unprecedented event in human history. No other faith or sect in the world has persecuted women like the Church has done for more than 1000 years. In the 20th century AD, for the first time in Europe, women were considered to have a soul and were considered to have an independent personality and were given the right to vote. 

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