Angela, maybe you like bisexuality in your gods and maybe I dont;)
A joke (really) coming from an atheist,
Bertina
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On Tue, 22 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 98-09-22 08:17:19 EDT, you write:
>
> << easily--there never would have been an issue in the first place if as I
> said before, the partriarchy hadnt obliterated the goddess culture that
> thrived long before patriarchy reared its ugly head.
>
> Bertina
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
>
> Hi!
>
> I know it is nice sometimes to reflect on the good old days - in your case the
> good old days of the goddess culture? But, can we PLEASE come back to the here
> and now and take it from here. If you had a time machine you could go back to
> your good old days of goddess culture? - but I think that you are stuck here
> in this patriarchial boat with us. The odds of the return of the Earth
> Goddess are slim to none - maybe within your little circles of understanding
> you will come to grips with that! However can we PLEASE work together to
> make the patriarchy a uniarchy and not try for matriarchy - because matriarchy
> implies exclusion of male participation - Reverse exclusion??
> Because We need togetherness not more separatisim - Women would be no better
> at matters then men are - you know why? Because the truth is we need EACH
> OTHER male and women working together - that is fair/just/right -!
>
> Just because generally being more nurturing is more of a female trait and
> needing more power is more a male trait - does not mean that there are not men
> who are nurturing and there are not women who seek power! Therefore, what
> this tells us is that our own stereotyping and generalizing of males and
> females is wrong and will get us no where - the answer does not lie in
> reversal of gender roles or religious beliefs! We should view each other as
> individuals - the way God views us :
>
> equally as important, equally as powerful, equally as divine, equally as
> capable of being nurturing and loving - the Earth really needs us - The Earth
> does not need reverse discrimination and/or old goddess cultures, The Earth
> needs our true equity - true love men and women at the healm - loving each
> other as individual spirited children of Creation.
>
> Peace,
> Angela
>
