Rebekah Calhoun: I thought I Was Wrong Once, But I Was Mistaken

Sometimes I go back and forth between my opinions, and sometimes they just blend together into  big questions. I have been thinking about my own cynicism about religion, and I have noticed that many women writers have found solace in their religion, they have used it to defend human rights and women's rights and so on. One of the writers from this semester, Dorothy Leigh, author of "The Mother's Blessing, or the Godly Counsel of a Gentlewoman", passes on a synchronization of the Bible's teachings and her own beliefs rooted in experience to her sons. She beseeches them to possess grace and gentleness, and these are two Christlike qualities, if I remember correctly. They are also two very feminine qualities, or at least I am led to believe that they are.
"Love not the ungodly. Marry with none except you love her, and be not changeable in your love. Let nothing, after you have made you choice, remove your love from her; for it is an ungodly and very foolish thing of a man to dislike his own choice, especially since God hath given a man much choice among the godly" (LAWL pg. 662)
She is a little harsh. And it makes me wonder why she sees the choice of having a commendable spouse as being something only a male would have. Leigh probably was speaking out of her own time, and it probably was not common for Renaissance women to have much say about who married them. Her biography states that because women were not legally allowed to pass on money or land, it was emphasized that women use their teachings to leave their legacy behind and impact the subsequent generation.
So, like I said, forget what I said before about the religion-- it was a little bitter sounding. I am open to all kinds of belief. I suppose, so long as they don't hurt anybody. -- Isn't that a Wiccan thing?
"Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're smart"- Tom Robbins