"I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture
through, essentially Christian theology, is a pretty villainous creature.
I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has done is,
allowed under it's, his church, his wing, all kinds of corruption and
villanies to grow and fester. In the name of God terrible wars have been
waged, in the name of that God terrible sexism has been allowed to
spread. There are children being born all across this world that don't
have enough food to eat because that God, at least his church, tells the
mothers and fathers that they must procreate at all costs, and to prevent
procreation with a condom is in controvention with his laws.
"Now, I don't believe that God exists. I think that God is creation of
men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now,
the better part of two thousand in fact, is that God has been slowly and
steadily accruing power. His church has been accruing power, and the men
who run that church, and they are all men, are not about to give it up.
If they give it up, they give up luxury, they give up comfort. I'm not
saying that it's true of all of them, some of them are working leper
colonies and doing extraordinary works in the name of that God. That's a
paradox which we probably shouldn't be discussing now, but I'm aware of
that. But I'm also aware that there are a lot of very powerful, corrupt
men enjoying the power that this tradition, patriarchal tradition, has
confered upon them."
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Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.musings.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
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