Then you consider yourself what? A mere animal? A complex machine?
It is true we find no starting point because I believe that sort of reductionism has led to the things I abhore; abortion/infanticide, euthanisia, cloning, ESCR, fertility clinics, etc.
I have no argument against the notion that women are more emotional, and viewed by men as having less intellect. You have a point in that I have heard that in Italy the majority of people left who go to church are women. I was only giving an example that there have been plenty of men that one can point to for piety.
"Mere" animal? What do you have against animals? Anyway, animal is just a word meaning, essentially, "animated" as in "something alive, that moves." So yes, I think we are animals in that we are animate, mammals in that we are warm blooded, primates in that we have fingernails, fingerprints, dry noses, are bipedal, etc, and Homo sapiens. Definitely the smartest of the mammals, very clever, tricky little monkeys we are, in fact... but its only intellect that sets us apart.
I was only giving an example that there have been plenty of men that one can point to for piety.
Natually. And I am only making the point that to clear a path for faith, you must first degrade intellect and decree that there are some things it cannot do. I am also making a point that Western society has had its priorities straight for some time now if it was delegating faith to women and then telling them they can't vote.