"I believe God got it right in Eden when he put a Woman and Man in charge, together. That, I believe, should be our goal, neither elevating nor denigrating one sex over the other."
And Goddess worshippers believe this as well. Separation is not an idea that is embraced. Instead, there is an idea of Oneness that we believe the Goddess embodies. She is both male and female.
The idea of engendering God is something people do to connect with something that is basically hard to comprehend. The concept of God is huge. The human brain is not even capable of grasping the idea of infinite space, let alone the vast concept of God.
I think everyone has pictured God with human qualities before. Though we may believe God is a being beyond gender - or a being that contains both sexes - we do not imagine God as a hermaphrodite or as an androgynous or asexual being.
The ideas behind masculine and feminine represent metaphors that people can relate to and connect with. And, in my opinion, as long as one is reaching to understand the true nature of divinity what should it matter what tools are used to relate to that deity? You see, I believe your God is the same being as my Goddess. We just invision them differently. I believe there is only one being seen by the people of the world in many different ways.
And these comments were in response to this post on feminism being a dirty word.
Given the supplied definition of feminism, shouldn't everyone be a feminist? It's a shame there even needs to be a word for this since it should simply be natural for women to be seen as equal to men.
In Goddess communities I have struggled with the idea of feminism. I have always felt that I didn't want something that seemed so wholly politically motivated to describe my spiritual beliefs. Instead, I believe the Goddess teaches us about Oneness that overcomes gender.
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The human brain is not even capable of grasping the idea of infinite space, let alone the vast concept of God.
I don't have any problem at all grasping the idea of infinite (and growing) space.
Or with grasping the concept of God/Goddess. We are God/Goddess in evolution. Any other beliefs are wrong in my mind.
"I believe God got it right in Eden when he put a Woman and Man in charge, together. That, I believe, should be our goal, neither elevating nor denigrating one sex over the other."
Hey, have you been reading a bible? Why do you want to screw with your brain in that way?
The bible isn't any authority on God, it was written by a bunch of frigging monkeys.
Burn it over a nice campfire.
I didn't write that comment Billy. It was the comment I was responding to. :) So no, I haven't read a bible in some time now.
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