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Male-Chauvinist Religion From the beginning of time men have tried to dominate women. Man has used a variety of techniques to accomplish this task including physical power, withholding education, politics, sex, and even religion. The article for today, Male-Chauvinist Religion, is an insightful look at inequality and how religion is used as tool of oppression throughout the world. Deborah Mathieu shows how three major religions illustrate in the texts and the teachings that women are the inferior gender. To support her claims in this article that god is chauvinist, the author had to look no further than the texts themselves. The religions she refers to, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, all have passages that speak of the woman serving the man in some way. They also all refer to their god as “father” and of course the default p