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In reply to the discussion: Video-Amina: Topless Tunisian Protester Tells Femen She Was Beaten,Kidnapped & Drugged By Her Family [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)Before Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son (an act that should disgust anyone who isn't part of a homicidal cult), monotheism killed the divine feminine that was even part of the Abrahamic tradition.
Yahweh is a lesser god, a jealous, nasty and mean god and, honestly, it's astounding to know that people still endorse religions that engaged in ritual animal sacrifice - and, worse, that claim ritual human sacrifice as a divine action. That's the action of a sick, repulsive being - but, the reality is that it's the action of primitive, fearful humans.
Wicca and other pagan stuff has been around longer than the Abrahamic religions in one form or another, so they're not new. They may be revised for modern times, but they come out of traditions that are older than monotheism. And they were persecuted because they didn't kowtow to the nasty hateful monotheistic belief system.
I'm with you, as far as my inability to grasp how anyone can hold specific tenets about religious belief beyond Deism - b/c first causes are not determined - though, based upon any understanding of evolution, there is obviously no intelligent design to life on earth. But if someone thinks something "deistic" set reality in motion, I can only argue based upon the unlikely probability that some supernatural force would exist - and, based upon reality, it is obvious, if such a force does exist, it has no impact upon the day to day existence of life on earth based upon every scientific understanding of the present world.
However, when people will defend such myths, they indicate they don't give too many shits about reality and that includes the reality of the lives of women in this world who suffer because of religious superstition.