From: MarshaV (marshalz@charter.net)
Date: Wed Mar 16 2005 - 10:00:52 GMT
Hi Erin,
The feminist part of me objects to the masculine gender applied to
deity. I use the word Goddess for balance. God, Father, Son, Goddess,
Peter Pan, Wendy, TinkerBell and Captain Hook are archetypes. To me they
are interesting archetypes, but do not represent an anthropocentric
deity. I am an atheist. MOQ is anti-theist in that it denies an
anthropocentric deity. Christianity is a theist religion. It has a male
deity. Sam is not just a Christian, he is a Christian priest. His
vocation is not just like a plumber's, over at the end of the day. He is a
full-time, representative of a male, anthropocentric deity and all the
tradition that goes with it.
I do read Sam's posts. I am interested in his perspective. But for Sam to
fully accept an anti-theist metaphysics would be to reject his priest
persona, vocation, identity. I was challenging this as his blind spot.
I know, who am I to say such things? I am a messy human with lots of blind
spots myself.
Marsha
At 02:50 PM 3/15/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>>Marsha,
>>
>>You seem to be bothered by Sam's theistic approach. I am puzzled at why
>>you then use terms like "Goddess". I can understand that you would
>>want to argue that that your concept "Goddess" is not the equivalent to
>>your concept of a christian "God" but I am not clear at how it escapes
>>theism. Please explain. I also think that your concept "God" does not
>>match Sam's concept of "God" and that is partly why you fail to
>>understand what he is saying at times. Maybe your concept of "Goddess"
>>is not that far from Sam's concept of "God"?? Why you choose to use
>>"Goddess" and Sam "God". I don't know...maybe you both are sexist pigs
>>(just kidding). But I really believe that a part of the failure to
>>understand him is because you dismiss Sam's commetns by interpreting them
>>with YOUR concept of "God", or how other christian priests from your past
>>describe God. To me when I hear Sam talk he doesn't sound like a lot of
>>christian priests that I know so I try to understand his concept of God
>>to understand his argument. The very fact that he finds it worthwhile to
>>talk and discuss "Quality" and "God" doesn't seem that far off from you
>>finding it worthwhile to discuss "Quality" and "Goddess".
>>
>>Erin
>>
>>
>>
>>
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