I feel that we are at the tipping point as a civilization. All the lies, miscreations and gross untruths are rising to the surface of our consciousness, like a disease in our collective subconscious that desperately needs to be healed.
In today's editorial by Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times entitled Rapists Represented by their Church as Men of God, Kristof points out that the Southern Baptist Convention joins the Catholic Church in a history that is rife with the sexual degradation of women and children. All committed by their insistence, as they raped, that women were inferior to men.
Kristof points out what we all know to be true, that patriarchy, especially patriarchy in religion where God is supposedly male, has led to infamy and sexual intolerance, almost as though men feel that they have been given a divine prerogative to abuse and hate women. To treat them as their inferiors.
How did these lies begin, and why has this been allowed to go this far, at least until now?
Kristof also quotes from the Gnostic Gospel of Mary, a document that the church fathers rejected. In that gospel Jesus instructs Mary Magdalene to carry on his teachings and to instruct the apostles, as she was the one who understood his teachings completely.
This is not news to so many of us around the world who have already embraced the Magdalene as the keeper of these teachings and have known this all along. This was the overriding theme in my original book about Mary Magdalene and it is a theme that will be repeated strongly in my re-write, but with an unexpected twist added in.
Let true healing between the feminine and the masculine begin as we have reached the end of the road with the old, tired model.
In today's editorial by Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times entitled Rapists Represented by their Church as Men of God, Kristof points out that the Southern Baptist Convention joins the Catholic Church in a history that is rife with the sexual degradation of women and children. All committed by their insistence, as they raped, that women were inferior to men.
Kristof points out what we all know to be true, that patriarchy, especially patriarchy in religion where God is supposedly male, has led to infamy and sexual intolerance, almost as though men feel that they have been given a divine prerogative to abuse and hate women. To treat them as their inferiors.
How did these lies begin, and why has this been allowed to go this far, at least until now?
Kristof also quotes from the Gnostic Gospel of Mary, a document that the church fathers rejected. In that gospel Jesus instructs Mary Magdalene to carry on his teachings and to instruct the apostles, as she was the one who understood his teachings completely.
This is not news to so many of us around the world who have already embraced the Magdalene as the keeper of these teachings and have known this all along. This was the overriding theme in my original book about Mary Magdalene and it is a theme that will be repeated strongly in my re-write, but with an unexpected twist added in.
Let true healing between the feminine and the masculine begin as we have reached the end of the road with the old, tired model.