tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post5915251003966761177..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: What Would Sojourner Truth Say if Amanda Marcotte Told Her To Shut Up About Her Religious Motivation? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-4413039587556187322014-04-14T08:41:04.306-04:002014-04-14T08:41:04.306-04:00And reading your link to Shakesville, I have to sa...And reading your link to Shakesville, I have to say Richard Dawkins is an even bigger dick than I ever realized.<br /><br />More and more I think even his scientific reputation will not long survive his death. He really isn't nearly as important as he clearly thinks he is. He fits the stereotype of the arrogant Oxford don too perfectly.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-44020464985525206642014-04-14T08:34:24.230-04:002014-04-14T08:34:24.230-04:00Julian of Norwich referred to God as both "Fa...Julian of Norwich referred to God as both "Father" and "Mother." No one in the church suppressed her work. If anything, society at large passed over the description and never took it up (they should have. God is associated with "Sophia" in the Hebrew Scriptures (and the Christian ones: "Logos" is just the Greek version of the Hebraic idea of wisdom. The first line of John's Gospel tell us "In the beginning was the Logos." It was, for the Greeks, the organizing principle of Creation. The Hebrews held Sophia in much the same regard.). Sophia is always seen, in the Hebrew Scriptures, as female.<br /><br />That Sophia never got the attention she deserved is due more to the emphasis on monotheism, probably, than inherent sexism.<br /><br />There is a lot of suppression of women's stories in the scriptures, but then the scriptures themselves are layers and layers of texts from many hands and eras, and not the work of a single author over a single lifetime. There is a great deal of justice that undermines that sexism, too.<br /><br />And in churches today: the UCC has ordained women for so long I can't now tell you when they started it (sometime after 1957, when the denomination was formed, is all I can say for sure). The Presbyterian church I grew up in allowed women to be Deacons (at least, if not Elders) while I was still attending there, so that was in the '60's or early '70's.<br /><br />The "sexism" latent in Xianity is there because some groups insist on keeping it there, not because it is endemic to the doctrines of the church. But those groups tend to get the attention of the media, either mainstream or, as in the case of Ms. Marcotte, side stream. What she doesn't know about Pres. Carter's faith, and Baptists in this country (check that list of church signs I put up, and how many are from Baptist churches) would fill library shelves.<br /><br />If anything, the intertoobs have made the trumpeting of ignorance even louder than before.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com