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The Woman’s Bible:The Original Femnist Attack on The Bible: Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 
Introduced by Dale Spender; (Polygon Books . Edinburgh 1985)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leading feminist writer at the end of the 19th century grew sick and tired of the Bible being used to lend God’s authority to keeping women ‘in their place’.The Women’s Bible is a caustic and highly entertaining ( to un-believers like me) commentary of the offending passages. Her argument is that the Bible is not the Word of God but is man made and cannot be appealed to in order to justify anyone’s politics. (extracted from the jacket notes)

She's right. It is man made. The various religions have been using this as an excuse to control people for centuries. Religion is indeed the opiate of the masses. If you get a chance watch a movie called 'Spotlight' - the Catholic church in full flight.