The Woman's Bible: Who Gets To Decide What God Means

In the late 19th century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a group of women asked a question that still unsettles the modern world:

Who gets to say what God means?

The Woman’s Bible (1895–1898) was not an attack on religion. It was an act of moral courage—an attempt to place conscience, justice, and human dignity above inherited authority. Written by women who had spent decades watching scripture used to justify inequality, it challenged the idea that sacred texts could be interpreted only by those already in power.

Building on the intellectual rupture explored in our episode on the Lisbon Earthquake, this film traces how reason moved from explaining disaster to questioning domination—inside religion itself. From abolition and suffrage to modern feminist readings of the Bible, the Qur’an, and other sacred texts, this story is about people refusing to outsource moral responsibility.

This is not passive history.
It is a reminder that interpretation is power—and that taking responsibility for meaning is part of our shared human inheritance.

Stay curious, and keep the flame of reason and inquiry burning bright.

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Visual & Production Notes

All visual images in this video were generated using Nano Banana, an AI image generation tool, and are intended as historically grounded visual interpretations for educational and documentary purposes.

No real photographs are represented as authentic historical records.
All images are illustrative reconstructions created to support historical storytelling.

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Educational Use

This video is suitable for classroom discussion (high school and above), community groups, and independent learners interested in history, religion, philosophy, and human rights.

Sources and recommended readings are available upon request.