When I told my nine-year old daughter Nana Ama the birth pangs I had to endure when delivering her, she burst into a hilarious laughter and told me bluntly that I had nothing to do with her delivery, and that her mother did all the work. When I asked her why then was I her father if I did not deliver her, she explained to me that it was because I paid the hospital bills and other expenses when she was born. While my young daughter may not now know how I became her father, she at least knows, as many do not, that reproduction is the function of females, not of males. Yet the Biblical account of creation describes how Adam reproduced Eve. In that account, God first created man, and out of the rib-bone of man, he made a woman. In the Bible, it is not enough that a wise God will create a male specie first, but that of all the available reproductive organs in humans, God will choose a rib-bone to create a woman! Yet this is the story many believe and quote glibly to support why man must lead and woman follow. The fact that there is majority belief in the preposterous notion that Adam “begat” Eve shows how far down the alley way of ignorance humankind could descend if the issue is about religious faith. Add this to the fact that woman was created as an afterthought, long after God is said to have finished the work of creation and rested after the seventh day, and you have a quintessential case of balderdash presented to us as holy writ.
Source: GhanaWeb
