--- Albert Desouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We > are breaking the first commandment when we say each > time "Mother of God' We are praying to Mother Mary because > we want her to save us and nothing else. This > selfish attitude is not the attitude which Mary > lived with, > albert ------------------------------------------ Dear Albert,
The sermao in the Believer's tent at Mapusa today must have been hot and sweaty. I can well imagine the fire-breathing Brother waving the Bible at the gaggle of discontented ex-Catholics, assembled there to denounce the Pope and Wendell all in one breath. So now we come to another of the Believer's pet peeve - Mother Mary. Arrey Albert, inorder to understand religion, one must be acquainted not with the Holy Spirit but with the Spirit of Inquiry. The Cult of the Virgin Mother, predates Christianity. It is infact a remnant of mythology, customs and prevailing half-truths that abounded in the Middle East circa 2000 BCE. It was commonly believed in those days that Kings were half-human and half-Divine. Infact as late the 19th century, quite a few countries (including Japan) still hailed the divinity of their nobility. Hence, it was a natural progression of this myth that Christianity embraced and theologically fine-tuned to explain the arrival of Jesus Christ into this world. In the evolution of religion, a masculine deity is a relatively new concept. Older religions abound with female deities, because the feminine of every aspect of nature was responsible for its continuity. selma __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
