Hyper-Patriarchal and Hyper-Matriarchal Societies
I recently watched a documentary on the Roman Empire. What struck me about episode one is how masculine the pagan world used to be. Demons seemed to have known who was in charge of that society, namely, men, so the sins were particularly male-based from the very start of the city of Rome: Fratricide, rape of the Sabine women (See above) and then, of course, centuries of conquering other nations. At the beginning of episode one, the documentary host reads a tombstone from about the 4th century BC where a certain "Scipio" boasts of how many hostages he took as a warrior. How did Christianity ever convert the Roman [...]