Also, is it just me, or do the Abrahamic faiths seem to be the most blatantly cruel and divisive of the current active religions? Then again, Abraham was willing to murder his son because his God said to, sooooooo...yeah.
I think what's saddest is that the original of the three, the one that's actively involved in attempting to genocide another country's people, is the MOST tolerant of the three.
...Sorta.
Anyways, in regards to the "miracle of birth"... yes, it's squicky, and no, I wouldn't ever want to be pregnant (not that I could ever be) and I do not envy any woman who gets pregnant.
However, it is sorta like a, excuse the oxymoron, "natural miracle". Creating life from what appears to be nothing.
Why are women oppressed again? It seems to me that they can take some pretty tough shit that no man can possibly conceive of.
...Heh heh, I said conceive.