Posted on 01/26/2002 8:49:48 AM PST by Your Vast Superior
In her book Changing of the Gods: Feminism And The End of Traditional Religions, feminist theologian Naomi R. Goldenberg wrote:
God is going to change...We women are going to bring an end to God. As we take positions in government, in medicine, in law, in business, in the arts and, finally, in religion, we will be the end of Him. We will change the world so much that He won't fit in anymore.
She went on to write:
Every woman working to improve her own position in society or that of women in general is bringing about the end of God. All feminists are making the world less and less like the one described in the Bible and are thus helping to lessen the influence of Christ and [Jehovah] on humanity.
She concluded with these insightful, but sobering, thoughts:
Can we predict anything about the new gods of the new age, except to say there will be many of them?
When we study the religious thought of those who have already outgrown the father-god—the witches, the radical feminists, the modern psychologists—we see a direction inward. All of these people tend to place their gods within themselves, to focus on spiritual processes whose values they experience internally. Judging from these harbingers of our new religious culture, the psycho-religious age will be a mystical one. It seems highly likely that the West is on the brink of developing a new mysticism—post-Christian, post-Judaic.
The inward journey Ms. Goldenberg wrote about back in 1979 is nothing but paganism. The purpose of this rather lengthy study is to effectively document the dark nature of radical feminism in our society today.
Back in April of 1978, an accredited study program entitled “The Great Goddess Re-emerges” was held at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Women had to be turned away from the course, which could only accommodate 450 students. The following excerpts from a Los Angeles Times article inform us as to what took place during the study program.
...eerie monotones...reverberated on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Cheers and whoops went up for the goddesses of yore—Isis, Astara, Demeter, Artemis, etc.
...the event was indicative of a burgeoning spiritual dimension to the women's liberation movement in America....
Christine Downing, head of San Diego State University's religious studies department, estimates that many—if not most—spiritually sensitive women in the women's movement are willing to replace the Biblical God with a frankly pagan and polytheistic approach.
Witchcraft is aiding the women in their search for roots and rituals—without the connotations of evil usually associated with witchcraft.
A Santa Cruz woman...said, “Some of the women think of themselves as witches, but not all.”
A brief, unscheduled appearance—met with enthusiastic applause—was made by Z. Budapest. A self-described witch...the goddess movement knows her more as a leader of the Susan B. Anthony Coven No. 1 in Los Angeles and a charismatic spokeswoman for a feminist brand of Wicca, an ancient women's religion [witchcraft].
The goddess movement, also called the women-spirit movement, apparently considers its first major gathering to have been a conference attended by about 1,200 women at the University of Massachusetts in late 1975...
The ancient Mediterranean world, pagan Europe, Native America and Hindu traditions are all sources for goddess imagery, Dr. Christ (rhymes with “grist”) said. (Dr. Christ is head of San Jose State University's women's studies program.)
A religious phenomenon virtually unknown outside feminist circles, “goddess consciousness” will be widely known in three to five years, predicted Dr. Christ.1
In a MS. magazine article, Karen Linsey, who rejects the God revealed in the Bible and who has, herself, dabbled in witchcraft, wrote:
The Feminist spirituality movement began to emerge in the mid-1970s and has become one of the largest submovements within feminism. It's amorphous, blending radical feminism, pacifism, witchcraft, Eastern mysticism, goddess worship, animism, psychic healing and a variety of practices normally associated with the occult.2
What the hell's up with that?
... In a MS. magazine article, Karen Linsey, who rejects the God revealed in the Bible and who has, herself, dabbled in witchcraft, wrote ...When Wiccans begin organizing themselves into terror cells and calling for a Jihad against the United States, then I'll care. Until then, you can be a straight-up satanist and I'll probably still ask you to watch the game with me on Sunday.
The bible is 100% true and tells me that Jesus is the truth the way and the life and that Jesus is the son of God. In fact, he was God himself in human form on the earth. It tells me that you are the one who is wrong. The Holy Bible is my guide as a Christian. It tells me that Christianity is the one true religion and there is much proof to attest to that fact. You better get right with the Lord before its too late.
No it isn't. Honest practioners of it freely admit that it's a modern creation based on what they imagine pre-Christian religion to have been like.
And to be blunt, who really cares what Wiccans think, except for a few crackpots who think God can't survive without their help?
As for me, I trust the Bible, millions have tried to disprove it and none have succeeded. Can't say that for the Wicca. Not to mention that Wicca is not older than Christianity, where do you get your facts?
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