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
>>> John Mundy <[log in to unmask]> 12/23 2:27 PM >>>
Not that I want to be thought to be a dedicated "social engineer",
"a
plumber", and still less a "postmodern hegemonist of social
construction
[!]", I'd like to ask why medieval Christians did not seriously
envisage
women as cult directors when they had been widely accepted as such
in
earlier history. Does not the repudiation of women as cult leaders
and
priests by Christianity and the near-excision of them from any active
role
in Judaism and Islam show that these cults were also repudiating and
combatting previous pagan religions in which women often played major
and
perhaps sacramental roles? John Mundy
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