Miért főleg csak nőket gyilkoltak le a boszorkányüldözések alatt?

Köszönöm szépen mindenkinek, aki képes volt érdemben válaszolni, bár szerintem hülyén fogalmaztam meg a kérdést...

Valóban lehetetlen elvonatkoztatni a kor szexista világnézetétől, de valamilyen nemesebb indokkal csak szentesíteniük kellett ezt a fajta undort és lenézést a nők iránt..

Szóval a valódi ok az volt, amit 91%os leírt (köszi a linkeket, érdekesek voltak), az indoklásuk viszont valami vallási cucc...

Végül sikerült találnom egy úgy-ahogy megbízható forrást:

The witch hunts were an eruption of orthodox Christianity's vilification of women, "the weaker vessel," in St. Peter's words. The second century St. Clement of Alexandria wrote: "Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman." The Church father Tertullian explained why women deserve their status as despised and inferior human beings:

"And do you not know that you are an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too. You are the devil's gateway: you are the unsealer of that tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law: you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God's image, man. On account of your desert that is, death even the Son of God had to die."

Others expressed the view more bluntly. The sixth century Christian philosopher, Boethius, wrote in The Consolation of Philosophy, "Woman is a temple built upon a sewer." Bishops at the sixth century Council of Macon voted as to whether or not women had souls. In the tenth century Odo of Cluny declared, "To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure..." The thirteenth century St. Thomas Aquinas suggested that God had made a mistake in creating woman: "nothing [deficient] or defective should have been produced in the first establishment of things; so woman ought not to have been produced then." And Lutherans at Wittenberg debated whether women were really human beings at all. Orthodox Christians held women responsible for all sin. As the Bible's Apocrypha states, "Of woman came the beginning of sin/ And thanks to her, we all must die."

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