In other words, there is only one living Being that is God. this doctrine has been stated as three persons in one God, all three of whom, as distinct and co- eternal persons, are of one indivisible Divine essence, a simple being. A maddening book, it betrays its subject and its cause at best, it may spur experts more attuned to both religious meaning and feminism to explore fully the real sexual politics of religious history. Download When God Was A Woman Merlin Stone Pdf Files. For her, the sexist myth of Adam and Eve-a sore point since childhood-epitomizes the transition from Goddess-worship to the suppression of woman as temptress and servant. What Stone can't prove by legitimate argument which is almost everything-she concocts out of superficial connections and spiteful innuendoes (intimating, e.g., links between the Semitic word nasi and Nazis, the biblical Hittites and Hitler's choice of surname, the name Abraham and the Brahmin caste, etc.). ""The female religion,"" regnant in matriarchal societies and possibly related to primitive belief that women alone create life, was violently destroyed by Aryan invaders whose phallic bias generated the religion and God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. A crusading amateur, she ""collates"" and ""correlates"" with innocent abandon a mass of documentary fragments (from secondary sources) to demonstrate the existence of a grand primordial religion of the Goddess as supreme being and creator. Though more frankly speculative than von Daniken's specious case for ancient astronauts, Merlin Stone's feminist reconstruction of the religious origins of Western ""male-dominated"" society comes from the same school of history by selective evidence and reckless conjecture.
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