Where did it all begin: the degradation of women? Some contend that there was a time, a long, long time ago when Mother Earth and women were revered; however, a pro-male mindset came in when we substituted the powers of the sky out there over the earth below us. But if we begin with the cornerstone of Western philosophy, Socrates, some 2,500 years ago, we see how we’ve managed to have the mindsets that we now have. Continue reading ‘#2- The Queendom Of God’
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
People are so frantic about putting a ribbon or label on every person and then placing them neatly in a box that we can put on the shelf for future reference- if need. Let’s take the two barrel fundamentalist’s question. Do you believe in Adam & Eve and the virgin birth? If I answer YES, the questioner interprets me as saying I believe it LITERALLY. If I answer NO, the questioner would label me a heretic and not a true Christian. Damned if we do, and damned if we don’t. Continue reading ‘Damned By Either Answer!’
A lot of thoughts came to me as I wrote the six part series on Adam & Eve last week. An unusual thought came as I was reading and reading again how Eve was NOT formed in the image of God, if you take the second creation story LITERALLY: which I don’t. Eve was formed from the rib, bone, image of man. My May 19th commentary reveals my thinking on the whole Adam & Eve, male-female paradigm. But that has now led me to this. Continue reading ‘#1- The Queendom Of God’
I know I’m going to make a lot of Catholics mad: however, I am an equal opportunity offender. Protestants are the main focus of my attention though. The thrust of this web site after all is to question those things that really make no sense- according to me of course; however, I hardly stand alone on any of these modern-day “95 Theses“. In fact, I stand with the majority in most of them, but I live in the midst of the minority. Did you follow that? Continue reading ‘#28- The Mary-Making Myth’
A seven-part (currently) series on how the church has led society into degrading women and hindering the Kingdom of God by not recognizing the Queendom Of God!
That’s a way of bringing attention to a still serious subject of women’s rights- especially in the church, since it is the literal interpretation of Genesis that got the whole mess started off on the wrong foot.
#3- The Queendom Of God
Let’s move on to the Old Testament, and particularly the second creation story, which is where so much of our attitudes toward women started. If there is a reason to believe Gen. 2&3 as just that “a story“, what it said and says about women is argument enough.
St. Jerome is a typical male example, of what the creation story put into the minds of men as he said, “When a woman wishes to serve Christ more than the world, then she will cease to be a woman and will be called man“. There are no words to describe such stupidity, which unfortunately still runs rampant in churches today. Continue reading ‘#3- The Queendom Of God’