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WHEN
WYMYN
RULED THE WORLD?
(NOTE:
Wicca isn't Satanism and Wiccans don't believe in Satan. Since I know
this, thanks for not emailing me and telling me what I already know.)
“[O]ur
ancestors found it reasonable to assume that the divine power behind
creation was female. Monica Sjoo and Barbra Mor have said it very
succinctly: ‘God was female for at least the first 200,000 years of
human life on earth’. For Witches, God is still female. The Old
Religion, with its strong matrifocal[?] perspective, was a religion of
ecstasy” (Laurie Cabot, The Power of The Witch, pgs 23-24. The
implication is that Wicca is 200,000 years old!)
WHEN WOMEN RULED THE WORLD
Sounds
like the title of a bad science fiction movie. (Actually, I think it
was, wasn't it???) Indeed, it is science fiction...but many
feminists and Neopagans accept it as science fact.
So the
story goes...in Stone Age times the world was ruled by matriarchies.
Women ruled and did the things we would generally think of men doing.
They hunted and fished while the men were apparently stay at home dads.
The goddess was worshiped, and god was basically unknown, or played a
very small part in religion. Times were amazingly peaceful and there
were no wars. Then evil man took over, got rid of the matriarchies,
forced people to worship gods, and the world has been screwed up ever
since.
Of the many Pagan temples of the past, there was not one
dedicated to a being simply known as "The Goddess". Scholars
acknowledge that the Pagans of old were genuine polytheists...i.e.,
they worshiped many gods and goddesses, believing each one was a
distinct entity. They did not believe in the "all gods are but one god
and all goddesses are but one goddess" idea of Wicca and most Neopagan
religions. This idea is a modern idea meant to simplify things, and was
unknown to Pagans of ancient times. Each god was in charge of his or
own specialty. For instance, Diana (Artemis to the Greeks) was a
goddess of hunting and childbirth. Venus (Aphrodite to the Greeks) was
the goddess of love, sewers, and V.D. The Pagans didn’t see Venus and
Diana as simply "The Goddess". In the 2nd Century A.D. there was an
attempt to unite all goddesses as simply "Isis" by Roman writer
Apuleius, but his success was very limited and short lived. The idea of
a universal goddess was made popular in part by Robert Graves’ book The
White Goddess. Like the current DaVinci Code controversy, the White
Goddess is fiction that many people rely on as fact.
Part of the
problem in trying to have a rational discussion with Neopagans about
their religion is that they believe in a romanticized history of
ancient Paganism that isn't based in reality. For one thing, they
believe the ancient past was dominated by matriarchies (societies ruled
by women), sort of like the Amazon women's society in Greek mythology,
or in the Wonder Woman comic books. These European "gynocentric"
societies were egalitarian, peaceful, with little or no social
conflict, and the reason for this was because of the sexist belief that
a society run by women would be somehow better than a society run by
men. There was no gender discrimination or sexual inequality. This myth
has become so accepted as fact that at the U.N. Fourth Conference on
Women in Beijing in 1995 there was featured a full-size
"reconstruction" of an "ancient matriarchal village," guarded by a
giant pair of female breasts, one above the other. It must have looked
like a village designed by Larry Flint!
Some of this stems in
part from discoveries like those at Catal Hyuk, Turkey In 1958, near
the small town of Konya, archeologists discovered a Neolithic
settlement about 9,000-year-old agricultural settlement that may have
had up to 10,000 people at it's height. Based on scant evidence, such
as a figurines of a woman flanked by leopards, the wishful
archeologists flew to the conclusion that a Utopian matriarchy had
ruled there. No fortifications were found at the ruins of Catal Hyuk,
which archeologists misinterpreted to mean the society must have been
peace loving. The remains of the houses appeared to be nearly all the
same size. This implied in the mind of feminists and witch-ful thinkers
that surely, a Matriarchal egalitarian society of non-violent,
proto-Marxist goddess worshipers must have lived there. The place
became a sort of holy place to Neopagans and feminists, who actually
make "pilgrimages" there each year!
In reality, modern
archeologists are concluding exactly what kind of religion was
practiced at Catal Hyuk. It may have been polytheistic, animistic, or
even monotheistic. Ronald Hutton concludes concerning the religion of
Catal Hyuk: "Despite this wealth of information, we have no entry into
the system of thought and worship which is represented. And if we
cannot find one at Catal Hyuk, where the images are so abundant, what
hope do we have elsewhere in the Neolithic?" (Stations of the Sun, by
Ronald Hutton, Pg 42).
Like all ideas of a human made Utopia,
from Atlantis to El Dorado, this one too seems to have never existed.
"Despite what believers in prehistoric matriarchy proclaim, women never
ruled the Earth." According to Cynthia Eller, archeologist and author
of the book, The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory. She goes on to state
in her book that no serious archaeologist today thinks that these
prehistoric cultures were ever matriarchal. This is because new
evidence found at Catal Hyuk, and reinterpretation of old findings
shatters the myth of the matriarch never-never land. For one thing, the
figurine found of the nude leopard women have been determined to be
children's toys of some sort...not goddess idols or symbols of Turkish
Amazons. One of these was found in a grain bin...not the place you’d
expect to find a sacred object of worship. Strange worm looking
figurines once thought to be little goddess statues are now thought to
be a sort of "voodoo doll", meant to be used in spell casting of sort,
possibly used in spells for child birth. The fact that these little
statues were only found in garbage heaps seems to indicate they were of
no lasting value, but thrown away after the spell was cast. The statues
were meant to represent a particular person for whom the spell was
being placed, not a goddess. After all, would you throw an important
religious object in the garbage? Eve modern Wiccans have a similar
practice of throwing away or burying the leftover items used in a
ritual (such as candle stubs, ashes, etc.).
Catal Hyuk has
become a sort of holy city of goddess worshipers. Hundreds of
feminists make the trek every year. In the 1950's, there was a strong
desire by archeologists with leftist leanings to paint Catal Hyuk as a
sort of Stone Age socialist Utopia, where all the houses were the same
size and there were no fortifications of any kind. However in the
1990's, Ian Hodder, a Stanford University archaeologist, began
re-excavating Catal Hyuk using up-to-date techniques including isotopic
analysis of the skeletons found in the graves. He discovered the men
had a diet rich in protein while the women ate mostly veggies. This
suggests the men were the hunters while the women stayed home and
raised the babies. Depictions previously thought to be those of women
in the artwork turned out to be those of animals. The famous
worm-looking "goddess of Warfendorf" idols are now thought to be merely
a disposable charm for childbirth (they are always found in prehistoric
garbage dumps, not the place you would place holy objects). Other
objects thought to be the representation of "the goddess" are now
thought to be merely dolls.
Excavations of similar sites in
Turkey, Greece, and Southeastern Europe that were of the same time
period as Catal Hyuk yielded remains of fortifications,
maces,
bones with dagger marks. This means the Stone Age
in Europe
saw plenty of violence. It was no peaceful Utopia.
The fact that
the women were buried in the dirt floors inside the homes at Catal Hyuk
with the bodies of men found less often was originally thought to mean
men had less value than women. It is now determined to be because men
died away from home and women died at home, it wasn’t because men were
thought less of than women. Men doing such dangerous things as hunting,
fishing, making wars, and even trading resulted in them dying away from
home. The diets of the men and women seemed to be inconsistent with
"egalitarianism" too (as if a society where men are valued less than
women could somehow be considered "egalitarian"). The men seemed to
have a diet reach in meat, but the women seemed to have eaten mostly
vegetables. This suggests women weren’t treated as superiors, or even
equals, and apparently were subservient to the men. This, and much more
evidence has led archeologists and anthropologists to conclude the
matriarch theory of Catal Hyuk, to be completely inaccurate.
We
also have no written record of any kind from these Stone Age cultures
to prove their existence. There are no stone tablets, no hieroglyphs of
any kind. The earlier cave drawings seem definitely male oriented,
depicting animals and hunters. To combat this lack of evidence,
feminists have hatched a new theory, namely that reading and writing is
a "guy thing". Dr. Leonard Shlain suggests exactly this in The Alphabet
vs. The Goddess. According to Shlain, when logical "left-brained"
patriarchs invented writing, it doomed the intuitive, "right-brained"
goddess cultures. Give me a break! Using this same logic, you could
prove Smurfs once rules the earth in Stone Age times, and the lack of
writing only further proves it. The goddess myth is hard to eradicate
because scholars are reluctant to speak out against goddess
disinformation, for fear of being branded "anti-feminist." or worse. So
far, just a handful of books and articles to counter the universal
goddess/stone age matriarchy have been written.
But even when
confronted with revised opinions by scientists that Catal Hyuk, was not
a matriarchy, or even woman oriented, Wiccans like for instance
Llewellyn author and Wiccan activist "Starhawk" say, "I believe that
there was an Old Religion that focused on the female, and that the
culture was roughly egalitarian." So in other words, "Don't confuse me
with facts, just tell me what I want to hear so I can continue in my
witch fantasy". This is the problem we face when telling the real story
of Wicca...people are not quick to give up their cherished fantasies. I
suppose if you go around saying you’re a witch and calling yourself
"Starhawk", reality isn’t your big thing, anyway. People would rather
have ridiculous names like "Druid Starfire Owlhead" and so forth, and
think they wield mystical powers than face reality. If they want to do
that, fine, but they shouldn’t accuse Christians of killing 9,000,000
members of their religion when it didn’t happen that way!
Another
thing to consider when reviewing the ancient universal matriarch myth
is that even if a cult of goddess worshipers did exist...so what?
Wiccans insist that religions with goddesses are indicators of a
religion where a sole goddess was worshiped, but this theory offers no
proof. You could just as easily say these same religions that worship
gods harken back to a day a single god was worshiped. The Shinto
religion even has a goddess as it’s primary deity, but Japan has never
been a matriarchal society at any time! Even today, it’s ruled by a
male emperor as it has been for thousands of years. It wasn’t even
until Japan was briefly ruled by a Christian named General Douglas
MacArthur that women finally got the right to vote in Japan in 1945!
Even
though this "universal white goddess worship" never happened in ancient
times, Christianity, unlike Paganism, was a universal fellowship. The
word "catholic" after all means "universal". The various Pagan
religions, on the other hand, were characterized by geographic
location, cultural, and ethnic background (not unlike the Wiccan and
Neopagan "traditions"). Even though these Pagan religions spread, they
never had the spirit of universalism the Christianity was able to
bring. People in Rome for instance, might have worshiped Mithra, a
Persian god, but there was never a feeling of kinship between the
Persian Roman Mithra worshipers. This is probably because no other
religion taught the radical idea of equality. Even today the various
Wiccan "traditions" (if something not even a generation old can be
called a "tradition") are divided along ethnic and geographic lines
like Celtic, Welsh, Saxon, Scottish, Itallian, Egyptian, etc.
Hinduism
and Women
Certainly
the world's oldest Pagan religion, Hinduism, would be the most tolerant
of women right? Many "wymyn" reject "xtianity" because they feel
comfortable only in a religion with a goddess. But does simply having a
goddess make a religion more inviting to women? What about Hinduism?
Many Wiccans and Neopagans like to have statues of Hindu deities on
their altars. Some Wiccans even try to 9unsuccessfully) find
a
common link between Wicca and Hinduism. But is Hinduism
really a
religion for women?
Not according to Indian feminist and
author Genocide of Women in Hinduism Sita
Agarwal
(who is not a Christian, by the way). Hinduism is responsible for more
deaths of women than Nazism and Communism combined. "No other
religion...slaughters one-tenth of all women each generation except
Hinduism. Indeed, Brahmanism is nothing but the legitimized genocide of
women.... The Brahmin mass murder of 50 million female children in the
20th century has thus been TEN TIMES more severe than the Jewish
Holocaust . And the killing continues." She also says,
"Although
this may sound like some Christian or Muslim propaganda, it is not. I
have backed up my research with quotations from Vedic and Vaishnava
scriptures, and have shown that these religions, and nothing else, are
the main culprits behind the most anti-woman system the world has ever
seen. Far from being `enlightened' and `progressive', Brahmanism is in
fact the very fountain of the evils of sati, female infanticide,
devadasism and dowry."
Even though Hindus worship hundreds of
goddesses, women are looked down upon in Hindu culture, and always have
been. This has not changed for thousands of years. "Aryan women were
severely punished with amputation of ears and noses for even minor
offenses, often by their own husbands. The Brahmanic secular court and
religious literature is full of such instances ", says Sita
Along
with genocide of women, Hinduism has also encouraged child molestation
of young girls, murder of women by men without punishment...and even
worse. I won't describe here how Hindu men sometimes dispose
of
the bodies of the wives they murder.
YOU
CAN READ THE BOOK GENOCIDE OF WOMEN IN HINDUISM By Sita Agarwal (who is
a feminist and atheist) HERE AVAILABLE AS A FREE DOWNLOAD.
Feminist
Urban Legends
Feminists
need to re-examine many of the things they believe to be true.
Feminists often make that claim that the "rule of thumb" used to mean
that it was legal to beat your wife with a rod, so long as that rod
were no thicker than the husband's thumb. However, Christina Hoff
Sommers documents how the link between the phrase "rule of thumb" and
wifebeating is a feminist-inspired myth of recent vintage.
In her
book "Who Stole Feminism" (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994, p. 203)
Sommers writes: ...The 'rule of thumb' story is an example of
revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing. It
reinforces their perspective on society, and they tell it as a way of
winning converts to their angry creed...
According to Canadian
folklorist Philip Hiscock, "The real explanation of 'rule of thumb' is
that it derives from wood workers... who knew their trade so well they
rarely or never fell back on the use of such things as rulers. instead,
they would measure things by, for example, the length of their thumbs."
Hiscock adds that the phrase came into metaphorical use by the late
seventeenth century. Hiscock could not track the source of the idea
that the term derives from a principle governing wife beating, but he
believes it is an example of 'modern folklore' and compares it to other
'back-formed explanations.' such as the claim asparagus comes from
'sparrow-grass' or that 'ring around the rosy' is about the plague. "
The Animal Rescue Site
How Women's Rights Were Furthered Under Christianity and Languished
Under Paganism
Far
from being a utopia for universal goddess worship, ancient Pagan
societies usually treated women no better than chattel. In Greco-Roman
culture, if a woman was raped, she was expected to kill herself from
brining shame to her family. Yes, you read that right. Women
were
rarely given an education and seldom ventured out of their homes after
they were married. Christianity was really the first great
women's liberation. Christians taught that husbands should be kind to
their wives. The practice of killing a woman when her husband died,
known as "widow burning" was practiced in many ancient Indo-European
Pagan cultures. Christians banned this barbaric practice in countries
(including Rome) where it took root. By contrast, in Pagan India, the
practice continued until 1000 A.D. and beyond.
Rome, supposedly
the most advanced of the ancient Pagan nations, was far from
non-violent. The heathen Romans were fascinated by the gladiator games,
and they were much more cruel than in the Russel Crowe movie.
The
Pagans of "pre-xtian" Rome feasted their eyes and ears on the
sights and sounds of murder. The Coluseum, which stands today as a
testament to the barbarism that was Pagan Rome, was the place of the
execution of not only men but thousands of women as well.
The Greek Pagan phiolosopher Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) too considered
women ‘defective’ human beings. He said women were ‘infertile males’.
“The female, since she is deficient in natural heat, is unable to
‘cook’ her menstrual fluid to the point of refinement, at which it
would become semen (i.e. ‘seed’). Therefore her only contribution to
the embryo is its matter and a ‘field’ in which it can grow”. Her
inability to produce semen is her deficiency.
He stated the reason why the
man dominates in society is his superior intelligence. Only the man is
a full human being. “The relationship between the male and the female
is by nature such that the male is higher, the female lower, that the
male rules and the female is ruled.”
During Pagan Roman rule, women did not enjoy equal status and rights
along with women. Roman law attributed to women very low status.
According to Roman family law, the husband was the absolute lord and
master.
The wife was the property of her husband and completely subjected to
his disposition. He could punish her in any way he liked.
As far as family property is concerned the wife herself did not own
anything. Everything she or her children inherited belonged to her
husband, including also the dowry which she brought with her to her
marriage.
In Pagan Roman under civil law, women's rights were very limited. The
reasons given in Roman law for restraining women’s rights are variously
described as ‘the weakness of her sex’ or ‘the stupidity of her sex’.
The context makes clear that the problem did not lie in women’s
physical weakness, but in what was perceived as her lack of sound
judgment and her inability to think logically.
Women could not hold any public offices.Women could not act in their
own person in court cases, making contracts, acting as witnesses, and
so on.Women were grouped with minors, slaves, convicted criminals and
persons who were dumb and mute; that is, with people whose judgment
could not be trusted.
Keep in mind, these were the same Pagans who worshiped godess idols
like Diana and Hertha. When "wymyn" try to look to the Pagan past for a
feminist utopia, they are really looking into imagintion, for such a
place never existed.
According to author Peter Berresford Ellis to mark the gand opening of
this death factory in circa 80 A.D., a total of 9,000 animals were
killed in fights with men and women. The number of men and women
slaughtered that day is not known, but no doubt it was in the thousands
as well. In the early days of the Pagan Roman Empire 300 prisoners had
to fight to the death, and 1200 women and men were killed by wild
animals in a single day at the Circus Maximus. As a special feature
during this Pagan event, 20 girls were forced to have sex with wild
animals. It took the death of a Christian monk to finally put an end to
the gladiator games, when he was killed trying to stop such a
"game". The idea of ancients Pagans being enlightened,
peace-loving and somehow more tolerant of women is ridiculous!
In
many Pagan cultures, women could not inherit property, and when their
husbands or male relatives died they were left destitute. This changed
under Christianty, and women could finally inherit property. Women who
had unwantd babies had no choice but to abandon them to starve to death
and die from exposure. Christianity changed all that, stopping these
practices and creating the first orphanages.
Rather than being
objects for the pyre (which still goes on Pagan India, even today),
widows were treated kinder in the Christian era,
and were given alms rather than allowed to starve to death on the
street or become prostitutes. Early Christian writers make clear that
widows as a group held a place of considerable honor and dignity. Often
they are listed along with the bishop, elders, and deacons (e.g.,
Origen, Hom. in Luc. 17), and Tertullian calls them an "order" and says
that widows were assigned a place of honor within the assembled
congregation (On Modesty 13.4).
If women chose not to marry,
they too could persue the scholarly life of the monastary. The
tradition of learned monastic women continued into the medieval period.
Lioba (eighth century), sister of St. Boniface, "had been trained from
infancy in the rudiments of grammar and the study of the other liberal
arts." "So great was her zeal for reading that she discontinued it only
for prayer or for the refreshment of her body with food or sleep: the
Scriptures were never out of her hands." "She read with attention all
the books of the Old and New Testaments and learned by heart all the
commandments of God. To these she added by way of completion the
writings of the Church Fathers, the decrees of the Councils and the
whole of ecclesiastical lawPrinces and bishops, we are told, "often
discussed spiritual matters and ecclesiastical discipline with
her"."(Life of St. Lioba, in The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany,
ed. C. H. Talbot (London: Sheed and Ward, 1954, 1981), p. 215.)
In
Goddess We Trust?
"Goddess
spirituality", a staple of the Neoapagn movement, is fast becoming
popular among New Agers and feminist. Wiccans and Neopagans in general
believe that there was a sort of world-wide ancient goddess religion in
Stone Age times. All of the cultures of the earth believed that the
earth was their mother, and was a "Triple Goddess" of "mother, maiden,
and crone", according to this view. In reality, this is not the case,
but these ideas have found their way into mainstream society.
Not
every culture in ancient times viewed the earth as feminine. The
ancient Egyptians for instance, believed that the earth was a god, not
a goddess. The idea of the "triple goddess" originated in the 1945 book
The White Goddess by Robert Graves, and does not have a basis in fact.
At the begriming of the 20th century, some folklorists,
anthropologists, and others hatched an idea that all neolithic people
honored this "Universal Mother Goddess", They furthered contended that
this "Earth Mother" was the giver of life and the central figure in all
Neolithic (i.e., caveman) religion. After this, any feminine (or of an
undetermined gender) figurine, carving, doll, painting, or statue found
was immediately dubbed an example of this universal caveman goddess.
Andrew Fleming, in his 1969 article in World Archeology entitled The
Myth of the Mother Goddess, points out the simple fact that there is no
supporting proof for the assumptions that spirals or dots represented
eyes, that eyes, faces and genderless figures represented women, or
that female figures represented goddesses. Figures of women could
easily have been dolls, or have been used in sympathetic magic by women
who feared death in childbirth. A large neolithic settlement in Turkey
called Catalhoyuk has yielded an abundance of apparently religious
images, but even so it's impossible to tell whether its culture viewed
women as powerful, to be feared and honored, or as threatening, to be
feared and subordinated. Commenting on the so-called "Venus" figurines
found throughout Europe, Ronald Hutton writes:
"Egypt considered
the earth to be male, earliest unequivocal evidence of mother Goddess
in late Sumerian texts, no clear evidence in Crete before c. 2000 BC.
In Egypt holding breasts was a female sign of grief, so can not be
considered as "obviously" significant of maternity or fertility. Female
figures could have been dolls (mostly female because they were made
mostly for girl children) or for sympathetic magic (especially
obstetrical). (Stations of The Sun, by Ronald Hutton pp. 37-38 ) In an
article in World Archeology in 1969 concerning the universal goddess
theory, Archeologist Andrew Flemming pointed out the simple fact that
there was no way to prove that genderless figures were female or that
female figures were representations of this universal goddess.
Even
studying present-day primitive agricultural and hunter-gatherer peoples
is no help, for some are animists, monotheists, polytheists, or a
combination of these. Again, while it's entirely possible that some,
even many, prehistoric people revered an all-powerful Mother Goddess,
the evidence does not support the worship of a goddess being universal
throughout stone-age Europe.
IMPOSSIBILITIES
Neopaganism,
and have managed to take the craziest of theories and outright
falsehoods and turn them into truth. In 1967 writer Elizabeth Gould
Davis produced the book, The First Sex. A book that’s
blatantly sexist, it claims that women
evolved
first before men (which would be scientifically
impossible
by anyone’s definition), and then men were actually "mutants" from bad
genes. One wonders how human women were able to reproduce without human
men...a medical impossibility! The book states by the time men had come
along, women had already created everything worthwhile. When God Was A
Woman was published in 1976 by art historian Merlin Stone, and was
equally as unscientific. Stone’s book claims many ancient societies,
including Egypt, were matriarchal utopias. Stone invented the idea that
the ancient Hebrew priests must have been Indo-Europeans and not
Semites. Her basis for this is the fact Hebrews were patriarchal. The
reality is, Egyptians were patriarchal as well, and both Egyptians and
Jews are Semites. Stone found it "ironic" that Nazis would end up
exterminating Jews, since she claims both were Aryans! Equally
unscientific is her attempt to link Hitler’s racist ideas to the
ancient Hittites... because of the similarities of the names!
As
unscholarly as these two books are, they are often used in college
campus "Women Studies". Your tax dollars at work.
What
Was The Oracle of Delphi?
Modern
day scholars have concluded the so-called Oracle of Delphi was the
result of neon gas rising up through a fissure in the ground. The
Oracles would inhale the gas until they hallucinated, and thus gave
their "predicitions". Sometimes the oracles inhaled too much gas and
died. So their was no mystic powers behind the oracle...it was the
equivalent to "huffing"! The accuacy of these predicitions isn't known,
because most of the people who consulted the Oracles came from
different cities or even different countries, and weren't heard from
again. No doubt it was about as accurate as asking a junking tripping
on the street to predict the future (in other words, it didn't work).
The Oracles reign of error finally ended when an earthquake hit delphi
shortly after the Christian era and the fissure was sealed.
“In
the time of the matriarchies, the craft of wimmin [sic] was common
knowledge...the remnants of that knowledge are what we call
‘witchcraft’ today”. (Z.Budapest, The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries,
pg 11 The matriarchy theory, which has since been proven wrong, is part
of Wiccan lore - - inaccurate data paired with a hoax ! )
A Matter of Semantics
Wymyn
leave behind the God of the Judeao-Christian religion, claiming even
though He may be considered a loving and merciful Heavenly Father to
Jews and Christians, there are times he was angry and vengeful. So they
ditch Him for the goddess. The goddess is kind and loving...well, OK
she has a darkside too, namely Hecate, Kali, and Lilith, among others,
but all that can be overlooked.
Or can it? How is it that God
slaying the Egyptian army the Israelites as they fled accros the Red
Sea (because the Egyptians wanted to kill them!) is unthinkably cruel,
but Athena covered up to her waist in the blood of her enemies somehow
doesn't even matter???
It really boils down to a matter of
Semantics. To goddess worshipping wymyn, a loving father God can't be
trusted because He's a man, a loving mother goddess can be trusted,
because she's a woman. This is theological sexism.
Yes,
the real reason some Women can't deal with worshipping the
Judeo-Christian God is really because of their own sexism. Here's an
example I read written by a Dianaic Wiccan online:
"I started to
look around for a way to give praise for living which did not involved
[sic] what was to me then utter, reactionary poison: a male diety.
Sorry: can't do Christianity. Whups, not Buddhism either. Hinduism? ay
yi yi, no. Do you see? Any male power source simply dragged me back
into my despised Lamia [sexual predator]-like existance, and I was
determined not to go there any more. Give me a Goddess. Let me find a
Goddess to follow."
(SOURCE:http://www.iit.edu/~phillips/personal/philos/dianic.html)"
When
reading about her life of sexual abuse by her own brothers and father,
and her emotional problems that resulted, it isn't hard to feel sorry
for her. It's sad that these women are so scarred emotionally that they
feel they can only find comfort in a self-made world devoid of any
positive male figures at all.
What wymyn who follow this path
fail to realize is that their own deep seated issues with men and
anything masuline is really a symptom of trauma, and giving into it
isn't the way to get better. Goddess worship enables a man-hater to
simply keep hating, and tells her it's perfectly normal to hate men,
and that she's right, they're all evil. It's about like teling
alcholics they should drink all the booze they want, and anyone who
says otherwise is just a tea todoler who can't stand to see them happy.
Or it's like telling a paranoid person the CIA really is out to get
them, and they should wear tin foil hats to keep their minds from being
read. As in the case above, she isn't to blame at all for being a
sexual predator, a masculine deity is making her that way.
But guess what? GOD ISN'T A MAN!
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The
Bible even says so: Num 23:19 "God is not a man, that He should lie;
neither the son of man (i.e, a human being), that He should repent..."
Yes,
the sriptures do refer to God as a "He" and "Him", that's because it
sounds nicer than "It". To put it bluntly, God would have no use for a
set of reprpoductive organs. God is neither male of female. God is a is
a complicated being, far too complex for us to try to define. Imagine
trying to explain to your sea-monkeys what you're like, and you get the
idea.
Women Can Find Strength In The Christian Religion!
The
idea you can't be a woman and love God is just plain wrong. There are
many, many women who have found comfort in God and become stronger for
it. Dorie Van Stone was a sexually abused orphan in a
loveless
childhood who found out about Jesus when she was 14, and credits her
faith in God with giving her joy when all she had known before was
hate. Corrie Ten Boom found strength in Christ to hide a dozen Jews in
her home during the Holocaust. That strength saw her through her days
at Dachau. Joan of Arc lead the army of France because God told her
too, when she was just 15 years old. Susan B. Anthony was raised a
Quaker, and believed Jesus wanted men and women to be treated equally.
There are hundreds of women who found God and found themselves too.
Ministries
by Women for Women !
Many
of the first converts to Christianty were women. Early churches often
met in the houses of wealthy women during the Lion Times. This is
because women could see that under Christianity they would have more
rights and more freedom. If Christians have failed in anything, it is
that we haven't liberated people fast enough. If you want to make the
world a better place, I invite you to put away your superstitions and
join us.
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed one."
- - St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta (one of those "xtians")
"I
believe in miracles with every atom of my being... because I believe in
God Today, that is still the PURPOSE of The Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation,
as we continue to minister to the needs of people in this country and
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MERECHRISTIANITY BY
C.S.LEWIS You're probably familiar with C.S. Lewis.He's best remembered
for the Chronicles of Narnia, which was inspiredby the Gospel of
Christ. Unlike LaVey, Lewis really did have adoctorate, and was a
college professor to boot! Lewis lost his faithearly in life and became
an atheist, and later rediscoveredChristianity through his friend
J.R.Tolkien (of Lord of The Ringsfame). Mere Christianity is perhaps is
best non-fiction work. In it hepresents a thinking person's
Christianity, showing you don't have toditch your brain to be a
Christian!
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THEPROBLEM OF PAIN by C.S. LewisC.S.Lewiswas more than the author of The
Chronicles of Narnia, he was also acollege professor, and Theologian.
One of the things Lewis had toconfront before he left atheism for
Christianity was the problem ofpain. The classic �problem of evil� is
usually stated: "If God weregood, He would wish to make His creatures
perfectly happy, and if Godwere almighty He would be able to do what He
wished. But the creaturesare not happy. Therefore God lacks either
goodness, or power, or both."Lewis answers by showingthat thosewho
say this do not know what "almighty", "good", or "perfectly happy"
really mean. This book is typical of Lewis, well written,
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BLINDSIDED:
A JEWISH AGNOSTIC FINDS THE MESSIAH. Read Stephen Katz's sincere story
of how he lost faith in the Judaism of his youth and became an
agnostic. College is a place where some people lose their faith, but
irnonically, it's where Stephen Katz found it! Read how he came to the
conclusion Jesus is the Messiah of the Jews!
As
a little girl, Susan experienced the loss of her father. After the
funeral Susan asked the Rabbi a straightforward question."Rabbi, is my daddy in heaven?"
He paused, not expecting the question...but his smile seemed
reassuring. "Susan, your father's memory will live on in the life you
lead. You can be his legacy." It was a nice thought, but it didn't
satisfy me. "Rabbi", I went on, "...you didn't answer my question. Is
my daddy in heaven now?"He was a little more serious at
this point and looked straight into my eyes and said, "I wish I could
give you a definite answer, Susan, but I can't. We don't know for sure
what is beyond the grave. We can only hope. And remember, your father
was a good man." The rabbi's second attempt to answer the
question troubled me even more." "
Loss to Life is the story of Susan Perlman, a Jewish believer in Jesus
from Brooklyn, New York, and how she discovered the Messiah.
The Richard Harvey story twists
through the halls of England¡¯s finest academic institutions, turns
with the author as he pursues nearly every religion under the sun and
dramatically takes off as he discovers the great transforming truth!
There is only one problem: That truth and his Jewish roots seem to
stand in conflict with one another.But
I¡¯m Jewish!is
the unlikely adventure of one of England¡¯s newest and most fascinating
mission leaders. As Richard Harvey¡¯s story unfolds you will see how he
and his wife, Monica, became Jews for Jesus and why today he is
resolute in telling his Jewish people that they too can be both Jewish
and Christian!
ARE THE CELTS SOME OF THE 10
LOSTTRIBES OF ISRAEL? According
tosomeauthorities, they just might be. It's a facinatingtheory!
Download this free booklet as a .pdf file. You'll needAdobe Acrobat
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affiliated with. Readthe booklet and decide for yourself! If theCelts
are the lost tribes ofIsrael, then Christianity, not Wicca, isthe
religion they should befollowing!
Downloadthis
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AuthorC.S.Lewis
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Alongwith genocide
ofwomen,Hinduism has also encouraged child molestation of young
girls,murderof women by men without punishment...and even worse.
Iwon'tdescribe here how Hindu men sometimes dispose of the bodies
ofthewives they murder. YOU CAN READTHE BOOK GENOCIDE OF WOMEN
INHINDUISM By Sita Agarwal (who is afeminist and atheist) HERE
AVAILABLEAS A FREE DOWNLOAD.
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techniques including isotopic
analysis of the skeletons found in the graves. He discovered the men
had a diet rich in protein while the women ate mostly veggies. This
suggests the men were the hunters while the women stayed home and
raised the babies. Depictions previously thought to be those of women
in the artwork turned out to be those of animals. The famous
worm-looking "goddess of Warfendorf" idols are now thought to be merely
a disposable charm for childbirth (they are always found in prehistoric
garbage dumps, not the place you would place holy objects). Other
objects thought to be the representation of "the goddess" are now
thought to be merely dolls.
The Richard Harvey story twists
through the halls of England¡¯s finest academic institutions, turns
with the author as he pursues nearly every religion under the sun and
dramatically takes off as he discovers the great transforming truth!
There is only one problem: That truth and his Jewish roots seem to
stand in conflict with one another.
