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I have been avoiding this discussion up to now since I don't know all that much about paganism. I do have two friends who are into Wicca, and I've attended some Wiccan ceremonies, and I felt they were more reverant than many Christian services I've been to. Neither of my friends hates anybody of any other faith, BTW. "Live and let live" is their philosophy.
I have to agree with Brianna that, all in all, Christianity can be very misogynist. Not only do we have Eve, there's that line in Genesis to the effect that woman should bear their children in pain and suffering. When anaesthetics first came out, many Christians felt it was going against the word of God to alleviate the pain of women undergoing labor. There are also the writings of St. Paul, a misogynist if I ever read one. To this very day, fundamentalist Christians will tell you that a wife should defer to her husband and some take it so far as to say a husband may even beat his wife with impunity.
I like the Navajo belief which has Changing Woman as one of their chief deities. Changing woman is way cool - she created all the plants which give abundance to the earth, and she created the Navajo people from her own skin (talk about being created in the image of God (dess)! I also like the Tibetan Buddhist deities, the Green Tara and the White Tara. The Green Tara is very powerful and can stop demons dead in their tracks merely by radiating the force of her compassion upon them. The White Tara decided to become re-incarnated as a woman to show that women, too, can attain the status of a Buddha. I have found very little mysogeny in the writing of the Buddha, and Buddhism has no intolerance for other faiths. The Buddha himself taught that if someone else is following a spiritual path that works for them to honor that path even it wasn't Buddhist.
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