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Because men can't listen to a woman. Ever try to get your husband to pick up his socks? Seriously, there have even been scientific studies which show that males "hear" the male voice better than the female voice, and can remember the content of what the men said better than what the women said. (I want to insert a joke here about preaching to the choir but I can't quite pull it together.....)
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According to the Baha'i Faith, the soul itself is "sexless". Our souls reflect God's qualities of Courage, kindness, love etc. That's why some men can be more compassionate then women, and some women can have more courage then men. The mirrors of their hearts are reflecting more fully those particular qualities of God's image. Male and female is only in the physical body. So, God has educated the human race according to their capacity at that particular grade level. Even Christ said, " there is much I have to tell you but because of the hardness of your hearts, you can not bear it." He was teaching according to the human race's capacity. As Muhammad found roaming tribes who would take a thousand wives, and if a girl was born, they would take her by the feet and smash her head into the ground. This is the capacity of the human race he was given to teach. As the capacity of the human race grows, then they will be able to accept a soul with a female body to teach them.
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There have been hundreds of female prophets. But we were looking at their t**s while they were speaking and nobody remembers what they said.
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Probably been mentioned, but Tenri-kyo, a Japanese religion that has expanded to other countries was created by a woman who claimed to have channeled God. She was illiterate, but others wrote for her. Also, Christian Science was founded by Mary Baker Eddy. Still I agree it's uncommon. The story of Adam and Eve is a deliberate Patriarchification of God. I mean, c'mon, woman born from the rib of a man? A subversion of all nature and all natural intuition about how it should happen. Some angry, jealous males made that story up. LOL.
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I would start with the fact there there is a difference between a Manifestation of God (like Jesus, Muhammad, Baha'u'llah) and the devoted prophets mentioned in the Bible. The Manifestations are the Divine Truth and Mouthpiece(s) of God, while prophets on a smaller scale are more like those people who dedicated their lives to serving these higher Manifestations. There are female goddesses is many different religions and mythologies, but they are not Manifestations of God. Look at the world around us today-women are very free in the United States, but are often still not taken seriously in a professional or work setting. The sexism starts from here and jumps upward to many countries, like Saudi Arabia, where women aren't allowed to even show their faces. Humanity is not at a place where it accepts everyone equally and without discrimination-yet. If a Manifestation were to be a woman, She would not be taken seriously for the mere fact that she is a woman. Don't get me wrong, women do have power in this world, but I think God is trying to dumb it down for those of us who still think it's okay to be sexist. We are in the process of bettering ourselves as human beings and then in whole, humanity-the world is not ready to follow a female Messenger from God-yet. But when She does come, I'm willing to bet that She will bring a message to change the course of the future and become a Mother to all humankind, a truly weight endeavor. Waiting for her will not be in vain, I'm ready to promise that.
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I think if you look into the Divine Feminine and goddess research you would find a lot more than you might think. Anything marked down in history was written in patriarchal times, so women who are "prophets" may instead be featured as witches or psychics instead. They're there though, in fact I think women generally are more inclined to find the Divine because of our natural state of giving life and nurturing.
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I don’t doubt for an instant that there were female Prophets in the past. We know that some of the great very ancient civilizations were matriarchal. The wise goddesses like Athena and mother goddesses like Isis, Demeter, and Ceres (possible origins of “Mother Nature”?) are probably archetypal memories of very ancient Manifestations. That also applies to Hindu goddesses whose names I can’t recall at the moment. Most of the ancient Prophets mentioned in the Bible and the Quran are unknown to us. What if they are just so ancient that they have been forgotten and survived only in oral history to eventually become archetypes (in the Jungian sense), common racial memories, and mythological figures? The roots of the Virgin Mary figure are extremely ancient and hardly unique as just one example of an archetypal woman "goddess" like figure. http://www.enochsvision.net/2009/10/the-manifestation-of-god-in-feminine-imagery/" target="_blank">http://www.enochsvision.net/2009/10/the-manifestation-of-god-in-feminine-imagery/
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The one that comes most to mind is Cassandra (ancient Greece). She was cursed with the gift of prophecy with the stipulation that nobody would believe her.
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The Bible(Exodus, Judges, ECT), and the Book of Mormon(2Nephi) have spoke of female prophetess'. Unfortunately, female prophets aren't as well known. Most people know of the more 'famous' prophets. In christianity there are female prophets.
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Many have already pointed out strong female leaders in various world religions, and I certainly can't add to that. But specifically addressing the word "prophets" in the question above, there are three in the Old Testament that are commonly listed in sources on the subject. My apologies if this has already been posted below. Aaron's sister Miriam (Exodus), Deborah, a prophet/judge who led the army of ancient Israel, and Huldah (Chronicles and Kings) also a prophet.
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I, too, was thinking of Ellen White of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. While the church is not what you would call a World Religion, it does have a presence in over 200 countries, more than any other Protestant church denomination. Ellen While wrote a cool book on the life of Christ which I am reading right now.
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Actually, the Seventh-Day Adventist church is based on the visions and teachings of Ellen G. White, whom they consider a prophet. She was revolutionary in her time, wanting to shorten the skirts and helped promote the health movement beginning with Kellog. It's a very interesting history, but Ellen White is highly regarded in the SDA churches today.
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Should this question be instead, why aren't there any female leaders/prophets in any world religion? To me this question is asking why no world religion was started by and lead by a woman. Or am I not getting it? And let's face it folks - you can quote all the Bible verses you want, but the prophets who have gotten the most face time/pulpit time have been the dudes.
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