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Originally Posted by beppe
Thank you Tom, that is exactly why I made a sloppy quotation on purpose. Be sure not out of disrespect.
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You know I love you, beppe!
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Originally Posted by beppe
To me one of the most interesting "things" in the Bible, is the almost complete absence of the Mother, venerated for millenia. While it is still present in India, and under different form, in the Catholic religion, where it is surfacing vehemently. The cult of the Holy Vergin, it is thoughts to attract nowadays about 70% of the faithful devotion. With most of the ancient symbols in full evidence, among which the moon stands up.
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The Bible is certainly in the main a patriarchal book, but there are notable exceptions. Jesus at times seemed to run against the patriarchal grain, and then there's the possibility (largely because of the sympathetic depiction of women in the writings of the "J" author, according to Harold Bloom and David Rosenberg) that the Yahwist may have been an educated woman in the court of King Solomon; as I mentioned earlier in
this post.