Religion is supposed to make people feel good about themselves emotionally and spiritually and lead them on the right path, but some religions devalue women. Women have fought to be treated with respect and equality, but it doesn't help if religion, the only thing people actually look to for guidance, humiliates women and takes away basic rights. Religion expresses that women are beneficial, but also that women are secondary to men. Yes, there are many different types of religions in the world, but in various types of religious scriptures it is conveyed that women will never be equal to men. It all started with the description of women as evil and gullible in the Bible. . Consider the story told in Genesis about Eve and the Serpent. God forbade Adam and Eve from eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but he allowed them to eat from every other tree. The Serpent convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and then she convinced Adam. God realized that Adam and Eve had disobeyed him, so he punishes Adam and Eve with exile from the Garden of Eden and also punishes Eve with painful childbirth. From that story people can form ideas about how weak Eve was. The Serpent approaches Eve, because obviously Eve, being a woman, was more spineless than Adam and therefore more vulnerable to temptation. Woman was considered inferior to man when Eve succumbed to Satan's temptation in the Garden of Eden. He ruined the rest of womankind and caused Adam to fall; he was responsible for the resulting wickedness in the world. The woman could only be seen as dishonest, untrustworthy and seductive. Men use Eve's actions as a way to justify the oppression of women. The Bible has a lot to say about how marriages should work...... middle of paper ......and there it will find how to “tame” the wife. Men have power over women because God made men superior. In the Islamic religion it is clearly stated that women will be beaten if they behave provocatively. In the Muslim religion, women should not be considered a piece of meat. That's why their bodies and heads are covered by clothes. The main reason for this is that women do not tempt men if they are married. However, the responsibility should not fall on the shoulders of the woman just because the man cannot control himself. This shows that instead of women, men are the weakest if they can fall into temptation so easily. Women are not even allowed to pray with other men in masks, because it would distract the men from praying. Women have to change so much for men so that they can function in society without being tempted and without problems.