https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/a-faith-that-crucifies-women/101241.article
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In Hampson’s worldview Christianity is on the scrapheap not only because it cannot possibly be true, but because it harms women. Since Christianity is anchored in a particular time, events from that point in history become a “benchmark” to which constant reference is made. “The circumstances of that past age are propelled into the present, influencing people, not least, at a subconscious level,” says Hampson. Obedience and worship are inescapably fundamental to Christianity. This, she says, must be a problem for feminists who have struggled to free themselves from patriarchal dominion. In her new book, After Christianity, she takes this argument a stage further: “I began to see that the very raison d’etre of the Christian myth was to support men as superior over women, that it served to legitimise how men see themselves in the world.”,
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In After Christianity she acknowledges that the Christian myth is a symbol system “which has carried people’s love of God” – though “we need to reformulate what God is”. Like the 19th-century German Protestant philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher whose work inspired her and who talks of human beings lying “directly on the bosom of the infinite world”, she undertakes theology because she believes there is another dimension to reality.
The book explores case studies from the Oxford Religious Experiences Research Unit, one of them being the story of a woman who goes to the cinema with her husband. Part-way through the film she smells burning and has an irresistible urge to return home. On entering the house they are enveloped by smoke and manage to rescue their baby and babysitter just in time. “I don’t think one can rule out the possibility that something else is brought into play here.” She is at pains to point out that such an experience does not constitute a break in the natural order. “Such experiences always have been and always will be, they just have not been discussed in the annals of theological academia.”
How my heart sings 
It has always struck me that the earliest Christian stories gave a remarkable prominence to the role of women and there also seems to have been a strand of this, which survived into the early Roman period, judging by several early frescoes in the catacombs. Nevertheless, male dominance asserted itself quite quickly, once the potential to use the religion as a means for asserting power began to be realised.
I always assumed it was Constantine etc who made Jesus into God and emphasised the Crucifixion to justify war etc.It just was chance I saw this and now Daphne and I have been exchanging emails.So life goes.I wish we could trace a few more of the people from our era!