On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Dennis Martin wrote:
> Yes, precisely. Judaism repudiated some very basic assumptions of
> other religions relating to worship of nature and the fertility cults
> that were associated with that worship, including the earth goddess.
> You pretty much have to do that if you are to be monotheistic and
> believe in absolute creation rather than any form of naturalism or
> emanationism. Your quarrel is really with Jewish, Christian, and
> Islamic monotheism.
>
> Dennis Martin
>
Perhasp you jumped the gun a bit because I don't really have a "quarrel
with J, C, and M monotheism". What I would like to know is why those
cults did not make room for female priests, not to speak of goddesses.
Christianity - to speak of the only religion I know anything about -
admits quite comfortably all sorts of apparent contradictions, a
monotheism that is composed of three distinct persons, a Jesus who never
dies but who nevertheless died on the cross, a Mary who is a divine spirit
but nevertheless not a goddess, etc. Why not women priests? Besides, in
paganism did cult-women officiate only in "fertility cults"? I thought
their functions were larger than that, but perhaps I was mistaken.
Yours, John Mundy
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