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“Benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.”

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Elizabeth A. Johnson, born in 1941, is an accomplished theologian whose research focuses on feminist theology, eco-theology, and liberation theology. Her work has had a significant impact in the field of theology, inspiring profound reflections on gender equality and environmental protection through her writings and lectures. more

“From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.”

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Author:Barbara G. Walker

“The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.”

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Author:Barbara G. Walker

“Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.”

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Author:Sheila Cassidy

“It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.”

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Author:Sheila Cassidy

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