Have you ever seriously considered a Feminine Deity?

Question

Let's just assume for a minute that there is a higher power and She is a Goddess who is the living Universe. She is everything that exists, including you.

If that were true, how would it affect your view of the world? Of religion?

Have you ever seriously considered the possibility? Why or why not? Can you really say you've considered religion rationally if you haven't?

Great answers!

To the guy who thinks all religions breed hate : that simply isn't true of Goddess worship. The cultures who worshiped the Great Mother lived in peace for many millennia. It was only with the advent of patriarchy and male gods that violence became a way of life for humans.

To those who think "god" has no gender: I know it's very PC to think that way, but I want you to seriously consider this idea just for a minute, ok? Males can't create life without the help of a female. Females can create life without the help of a male through parthenogenesis. The first gender is always female- males are a derivative of the female. Some species have only female members. This is basic biology, but it isn't taught this way in schools. Our academic institutions are built to reinforce the ideals of patriarchy, so anything pro-female is suppressed, ignored or ridiculed.
If the Universe is alive, and She gave birth to everything within Her, She has to be female. Just think about it~

Lady Morgana~
I'm writing a book about The First Sex! I'll let you know if I ever finish it. I keep around 10 copies around at a time so I can give them away to students. I consider it the most important book of the 20th Century, and I don't consider a person truly educated unless they have read it. If it were up to me, they'd teach it in schools.

It amazes me how well the patriarchy has indoctrinated people with a fear of the feminine. Even Wiccans jump in to say the Goddess and god are equal, in direct conflict with Nature. Females are always more plentiful. The human race is 54% female and 46% male (more or less) and that's the way it has to be for survival of the species. Every fetus begins as female, and if any of several processes fails to take place, a fetus will remain female even with a Y chromosome. The male of our species is in decline, and not expected to last more than a few thousand more years. Yet they are so afraid to admit that the female has to come first. It's sad.

Answer 1

Dear Morgaine,

I think you and I are sisters, we think exactly the same way on this issue. I have read much about this line of thinking, and about the ability of females to create new life without the added male ingredient, how members of species started out as female. It is fascinating, isn't it? Why have we been pushed down and denigrated as being second class citizens when we are the creative force behind our species?

To answer your question, you know me. You know that I not only have considered a Feminine Deity, I believe in this and embrace it. I am basically an agnostic when it comes to the religious teachings that have been constructed by homo sapiens, and believe that a creative force that could have created us doesn't sit around and worry about who is bending knee to it.

Considered as a hugely mysterious and incomprehensible force or Spirit that created our planet and us, it is very easy to see this force or Spirit as being female in the sense of a Spirit that creates alone.

I love this. Have you read a book called "The First Sex?" The author's name escapes me right now, but I will try to get it to you if you like. She talks about this notion in one of her chapters. I recommend this book to you very highly, it is right up both our alleys!

Bright Blessings,
Lady Morgana )0(

edit: the author of The First Sex is Elizabeth Gould Davis.
BB,
LM :D

Answer 2

So seriously, I'm gnostic. You seem to know that deity is a much better word to use. As one answer stated something about deistic views... It's not even just the issue of creator gods. As an epistemological atheologist, I have had to consider creative beings, omniscient beings, omnipotent beings, gods that are responsible for thunder and lightning, gods that could be aliens. As a Dungeon Master, I've had even more experience with deities. A DM is more powerful than a deity. I don't expect anyone to deify the Dungeon Master.

Answer 3

As a Pagan, I believe in both the God and the Goddess and that they are equal. The female is not subserviant to the male, as the countless patriarchal religions would like her to be.

Answer 4

There's a reason why the Catholics propagated the idea of the Virgin Mary as a quasi-diety: because almost all of the pagan people they encountered had some concept of a Goddess of Fertility. So naturally the Catholics wouldn't be able to sell their religion, unless they also had a "Goddess" of some sort.

Answer 5

Interesting, but I've always considered God genderless.

Edit: Regarding your additional info: Wow! You have some serious self esteem/feminist action going on inside you. Your need to proclaim woman as the end-all to all of existence, including being God herself (little humor there).

God created man first, then woman. He created both without the aid of a woman. He created them from dust, so no vagina was required.

And last time I checked, a woman can't produce a baby without that little slimy stuff called sperm. And man is the sperm producer. I know some women think that's all we're good for, that's okay. For some men, that is true. Others have slightly more value. Regardless, it takes two to tango. It takes two, man and woman, equally, to bear a child, i.e., create life as you put it. But really, God is the one producing the life, the man and woman are merely the instruments He uses. One the sperm producer, one the egg producer. Both equal.

You should look deep inside yourself. Don't you find it interesting that you are Not Content with being equal to Man? You have this insatiable desire to be better than Man. Isn't that how the whole male dominated society began with?... man thinking himself superior to women? Now, you want to flip it. Can't be just be equal? Can't we be friends? How about a round of Kumbaya? All I'm asking is, give peace a chance. I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. (ok, enough lame song references). Go in peace, Sister. Love ya!!

Answer 6

Yes I have. God is both immanent and transcendent, and above gender, but the source of both the masculine and feminine. In Christian theology, many view the Holy Spirit of God as the feminine expression of the divine (Holy Spirit is the comforter, the communicator, bringer of wisdom, which ties into the image of sophia). God the Father is the masculine expression, and Jesus is definitely masculine, so it's a little skewed, but Jesus represents God and human together.

However, that's not exactly what you are saying, because it's not pantheistic or panentheistic.

Morgaine--for the record, when it comes to my spiritual beliefs, I don't base anything on whether it's "PC" or not. It means for too much to me to do that.

Answer 7

I do believe the Creator is feminine in nature. Mother Earth, the Moon, and the seasons are where I draw my sustenance from. I sought for many, many years and finally found what I can embrace and feel comfortable with.

Mother Moon and Father Sun are my chief gods. I find other religions silly and foolish. And destructive. I see the world destroying Mother Earth. Soon we humans will destroy ourselves - we are on the way, and Mother Earth can heal.

Blessed be-

Answer 8

I believe God is married. Out of respect for His wife, She is not mentioned often. Look at what people say or do in the name of God. He didn't want the same thing to happen with His wife.

Answer 9

Gos does not have a sex, or race, or religion. He is called a "he" for simplification of speech in referring to Him. It is easier too say He is God, than to say He/She is God. Since men had more power in ancient times, and women were considered lesser, the term "HE" when referring to God came into being. But is is asexual--no sex--as we will be one day when we reach His level!

Answer 10

Not for a moment, for the simple reason no female deity would or could let things get this badly messed up