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I do remember. *smiles*. And I have a similar opinion on the gender politics of Christianity. The development of an entirely masculinised creed from something that began in a much more gender balanced form is fascinating to me. Especially the way it went from an acceptance of female worship and female agency within the early Church, through to wholly masculine with women and female aspects of the Godhead expunged from official expressions of the creed, and then into a growing acceptance of women (though only to a point) and a more inclusive approach.
The reason the Koran is less misogynistic than the Bible is partly because so much of the bible was written 1000 years before the Koran was even thought of, often relating stories that were themselves survivals of much older cultural products. And partly because the editing process of the early 'church Fathers' and their medieval counterparts enshrined only those portions of the collected texts which would become the bible, that fitted their own understanding of God's word.
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