Our Morality Is Secular, Not Biblical
If asked, the majority of Christians today would say that they support equality among the sexes, or at least something close to it. They would also likely agree that slavery is immoral. That racism is a scourge to mankind and child abuse and the extermination of a people are abhorrent. They would also count Christianity as the main force opposing these injustices. They would be wrong on that last one.
The Bible in fact demands sexism. It tells slaves to happily endure their servitude and even to admire their masters. It teaches that God himself is a racist who at least for a few thousand years had a favorite ethnicity — the rest of mankind being called Gentiles. God himself demanded that certain children be dashed against rocks, that those living in the Promised Land be exterminated by his people, and promises to return again to set the world on fire.
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
-I Timothy Chapter 2
