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bijoumikhawal · 6 months

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Then I had a turning point: an encounter woth a rabbi named Paula Reimers who came to speak at Wesleyan. She claimed it was forbidden to imagine God as a mother, because the mother-God would love and forgive us too much. We would have no morality, and we would all become pagans. I knew from my reading that goddesses around the world had severe as well as nurturing attributes. I knew it was wrong to claim that a female God couldn't make laws. I knew it was wrong to say God couldn't appear as a woman. And I knew her dismissive words about religious traditions that revered goddesses were simplistic and bigoted. I was especially angry when [she] waxed eloquent about her personal experience of having God as a male lover. Why couldn't I have God/dess as a female lover?

The Hebrew Priestess pg 5

#cipher talk #Kohenet Judaism #I read a paper recently that argued Asherah at a certain point in the literature wasn't being worshipped as a seperate goddess #But as G-d- just female. It was interesting #Especially because a Prophet predicted the groups destruction which failed to come to pass which is pretty unusual in condemnations #They also made him mad by moving to Egypt #Another thing about this passage is as a person with an abusive mother #It is an egregious example of benevolent sexism to assume all mothers are purely nurturing and can't lay down rules #Because if you can't accept even that then how can you discuss abuse?

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