![]() ![]() The study of comparative religion is beneficial in that it allows us to observe how religious beliefs are "coincidentally" related to who holds power in a society. I do not believe it is appropriate to label "god" as either a male or a female. If there is any sort of transcendent being, I believe that it is beyond gender, race, ethnicity, or any other label humans choose to categorize themselves by. Personally, (and this does bear mentioning before I'm accused of wanting to take down The Man and institute a Goddess religion because I read this book), I do not believe that there is a Supreme Deity. Accordingly, the rise of the Judeo-Christian religion, she argues, coincided with the decline of the the status of women in society. ![]() Using archaeological evidence, Stone argues that when much of humanity practiced the religion of the Goddess, the status of women was much higher that in male-deity worshiping Judeo-Christian societies. ![]() When God Was a Woman sets out to explore this question, as well as to explore what Goddess-worshiping societies looked like. might we expect in a society that for centuries has taught young children, both female and male, that a MALE deity created the universe and all that is in it, produced MAN in his own divine image- and then, as an afterthought, created woman, to obediently help man in his endeavors?" ![]() I will begin this book review with a question Merlin Stone asks in the Preface to her book When God Was a Woman: ![]()
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