Carol Christ talks about women creating and publicizing the concept of a 'Goddess' and the popularity f the Goddess concept for women, particularly given that the male 'God' has been created by a male populace who has created God in his image and often used Him to penalize women. Carol likewise discusses how all aspects of women that were condemned because they were seen to be earth bound -- such as birth, menstruation, caring for the living and dying -- are elevated by some feminists today into ceremonies that promote their life-giving and unique contribution. Carol too notes that, even thoguh taboos against female characteristics (such as menstruation) persist in some religions today, the woman of today is less likely to allow herself to be knocked down and more likely to see God as a Goddess too, either within or from without herself or to be both internal and external to herself. Carol, too, draws a striking distinction between the respect accorded elderly men and that accorded to elderly women. Generally, in the Western world, at least, it is the young woman who is admired for her beauty and youth whilst some old men are still admired for their wisdom. The woman is always in a stage of passivity: She depends on youth to gain the admiration of others. She knows that as soon as her youth passes she may lose that. She waits till her breasts are developed; she waits for menstruation; she waits fro marriage; she waits to sleep. Thus the traditional life of...
But the modern wife refuses to be passive. She is determined on shaping her own life.
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Even thoguh Carol does not draw any parallelisms, the conclusion that seem evident to me from woman's leveraged situation is that woman has now become more of a goddess than she previously was in that, just as Goddess implies creation, so, too, is woman now more effectively resolute and capable of creating herself and the world rather than being passive recipient for changes to be wrought to her. It is no wonder tehn that is precisely during such an epoch (rather than ever before) that woman can visualize and formulate a Goddess being.
Woman the Creator
A God is traditionally seen as someone who creates. All major religions start off their historical catechism with the assertion that "in the beginning, God created..." God is also thought to create and maintain human as well as to bring all life into creation and destruct it at its end. In short, God is known as omnipotent, omniscient, and al-mighty.
The interesting thing is, that God is created in man's image as scholars have noted. Man have decked him out to resemble that which they wish Him to be with white man, for instance, making Him into a white God who, according to the American South condoned slavery and according to the American North forbade it; and black man recently see Him as a Black God who tends to their plight and is…
