Michael Terran

This is a Great Article by The Berean Call! The article goes well with your quote Cheryl!

Quote: Satan has confused matters by bringing ungodly women into the secular women’s movement who not only have hijacked that movement and taken it onto a pathway of evil but who usurp God’s authority in creation and teach that men and women are the same. By their ungodly and unnatural teaching they uphold the sinful position of those who want to propagate same sex unions. Again the lie of the devil is that equality = sameness. End Quote

The Berean Call

1. The Goddess and the Liberal Church
   [ http://www.thebereancall.org/node/6109 ]

The Goddess and the Liberal Church

The message of the goddess has gained a hearing in the church as well.
The philosophy of the goddess is currently being taught in the
classrooms of some of our seminaries. In a growing number of seminaries
the student population is becoming increasingly female, and many of
these women have a feminist outlook on life. Mary Daly, who considers
herself to be a Christian feminist, says this about traditional
Christianity: “To put it bluntly, I propose that Christianity itself
should be castrated.” The primary focus of the “Christian” feminist is
to bring an end to what they perceive as male-dominated religion by
“castrating” the male influence from religion. Daly continued by
saying,

“I am suggesting that the idea of salvation uniquely by a male savior
perpetuates the problem of patriarchal oppression.”(Alice Hageman,
Theology After the Demise of God the Father: A Call for the Castration
of Sexist Religion, New York: Association Press, 1974, 132.)

Reverend Susan Cady, co-author of Sophia: The Future of Feminist
Spirituality and pastor of Emmanuel United Methodist Church in
Philadelphia, is one example of the direction that Daly and others are
taking the church. The authors of Sophia state that, “Sophia is a
female, goddess-like figure appearing clearly in the Scriptures of the
Hebrew tradition.”

Wisdom Feast, the authors’ latest book, clearly identifies Jesus with
Sophia. Sophialogy presents Sophia as a separate goddess and Jesus as
her prophet. The book takes liberty with Jesus by replacing the
masculine deity with the feminine deity Sophia. Another example of how
goddess “thealogy” (note feminist spelling for theology) is making its
way into the liberal church is through seminars held on seminary
campuses.

One such seminar was held at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern
Methodist University. “Wisdomweaving: Woman Embodied in Faiths” was
held
at the school in February of 1990. If one looks at the schedule of the
seminar, it is obvious that the emphasis was not on orthodoxy. Linda
Finnell, a follower of Wicca and one of the speakers, spoke on the
subject of “Returning to the Goddess Through Dianic Witchcraft.” Two of
the keynote speakers were of a New Age persuasion. In fact, one, Sr.
Jose Hobday, works with Matthew Fox and Starhawk at the Institute for
Creation Spirituality.

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