Sjà ¶Ãƒ ¶ and Mor argue that such questions of faith disappear if matters of pregnancy and abortion are understood within the context of the Great Cosmic Mother's "religion of the earth."
There, women whose very monthly processes mirror those of the seasons, moon phases, and tides, are granted overriding insights, intuitions, and understandings about their unique processes inaccessible to the men whose patriarchal pronouncements would explain, invalidate and govern them.
In specifically theological perspective, proponents of the reemergent goddess religion add: "If God is seen as female, the problem of abortion does not exist. The entire question of sex, pregnancy, birth control - and even abortion - undergoes an ontological somersault, a revolution of basic terms"
Conclusion
This article has been about abortion. It has argued that solving its dilemmas begins with recognizing their roots in patriarchy and patriarchy's God.
The same argument could be made about climate change and the threat of nuclear war. In all three cases, the problem is the relatively recent arrival of a world governed by men (patriarchy).
Theologically speaking, man's world has been grounded in the worship of a God divorced from life's most basic processes. Fundamentally, patriarchy's God is a war deity. He legislates, judges, condemns, and punishes. He is a God of fear. He has been used as a tool to persuade the politically, economically, and historically illiterate to endorse patriarchy's omnicidal agenda.
Think about it. It is men who run a world economy that is irreversibly destroying the planet. It is male politicians, generals, and CEOs (aided by the relatively few women admitted to their clubs) who have developed and currently threaten the world with nuclear destruction. It is men, not women who are the planet's principal rapists, child abusers, mass shooters - and clergy. And the latter's misogynist theology is unconsciously rooted in a 12,000-year-long battle against The Great Cosmic Mother.
By contrast The Great Cosmic Mother herself embodies life's rich abundance, generosity, extravagance, and prodigality. She welcomes humans as co-creators with Life's Source. She is the Ground of life's cycles and rhythms. Those rhythms assure that what has come once - when the time is wrong - can come once again when the time is right. The Great Cosmic Mother could never endorse her own matricide whether by climate change or war of any kind, nuclear or not.
And it is women spiritual leaders who are most in touch with her. These are the guides who must replace the male priests, pastors, imams, rabbis - and presidents. And (in American culture) they have names such as Louise Hay, Liz Theoharis, Caroline Myss, Monica Sjà ¶Ãƒ ¶, Barbara Mor - and Marianne Williamson. Their theology is earthy, experiential, eminently practical, and expresses the insights of those whose lives are deeply connected with earth's rhythms in ways the patriarchal order has proven incapable of understanding.
What I'm suggesting is that it is high time to overcome "sophisticated" reluctance to recognize such truths and leaders. It is far past time for churches to debunk the modern patriarchal God in favor of the ancient Great Cosmic Mother who frees from patriarchal laws, empowers humans as co-creators, forgives, appreciates, and rewards.
Fundamentally, our problems are not economic, political, or ideological. The left needs the courage to recognize and profess that truth. Only The Great Cosmic Mother can save us now.
Sorry, Mr. Clinton, it's not the economy that explains everything. It's the theology.
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