To be honest, when I was a Christian, I saw this as simply a metaphor for being a mere mortal. I suppose my mind just rejected the notion that women are unclean as so ridiculous, that I had to come up with some other interpretation.

To be fair (and no, I don't know why I bother), the Bible also says that sin came into the world by one MAN (Romans 5:12). So it spreads the shame and blame around equally in that sense, I guess.

More broadly the whole notion that sin is a thing-in-itself somehow rooted in the physical world and particularly in our bodies -- this "stain of sin" that we'll never fully get rid of apart from death -- is the thread of Christian asceticism that runs through scripture. The disgust is not solely for women, it is for physicality and biology itself. We are filthy with sin, therefore, anything that physically proceeds out of one's body is an opportunity for self-loathing since it's symbolic of the stain of sin. Where women come into it is that the Bible was written by men, so they would of course focus on those biological products associated with pesky women, who also caused the fall by convincing Adam to eat from the forbidden tree, etc.

I have always felt it was odd that with such lines in the bible, that are very anti-women, that women are more likely to be and more strongly Christian than men.

They say , you're clean if you're washed in the blood of Christ . So why aren't you clean from being washed in the blood of your Mom , as you're being born ?

Life is a box of chocolates.

Forrest Gump

I understand that among the Jewish believers, the book of Job is the most controversial. The idea that god would burden and plague a man to that extent just to win a wager, has always been a moral problem for thinking people.

Just like the rest of the bible it is all fairy tales and myths.

I did notice that the subtext of the scripture above is demeaning to women, by implying that women are by nature unclean. I hope that wasn't the point you intended to make with the post.

We invented soap since then.

??? Why are you quoting the Bible. It's not even true, so why bother.