muslim tithe sexism in genesis according to mdbs ms uky edu muslims tithe of their income perhaps there are some offshoots of islam that impose this on their followers but the standard tithe is of one s net worth once a year the same writer also objects to the bible for teaching that woman was created after man to be his helper etc this is presumably a reference to genesis suppose that that chapter had been written with the sexes reversed we have god creating woman and then saying it is not good that woman should be alone i will make a help meet for her feminists would be outraged the clear implication would be that god had started at the bottom and worked up making first the plants then the fish and birds then the beasts then woman and finally his masterpiece the male chauvinist pig the statement that woman is not capable of functioning by herself that she needs a man to open doors for her would have been seen as a particularly gratuitous insult the fact that the creation of woman from the dust of the ground was given only briefly and in general while the creation of the man was given in six times the number of words would have been cited as evidence of the author s estimate of the relative importance of the sexes the verdict would have been unequivocal no self respecting woman can accept this book as a moral guide or as anything but sexist trash i suggest that moses fearing this reaction altered his original draft and described the creation with adam first and then eve so as to appease miriam and other radical feminists of the day for some reason however it did not work yours james kiefer
