Femininity and the Divine

Homophobia and misogyny, two very closely linked bigotries, are charted as the chief evils of some religions today. Both stem essentially from patriarchal attitudes to the feminine, which is a reality irrespective of religion, and is only associated with religion because a particular form of medieval patriarchy has become crystalised in today's surviving medieval religions.

The partriarchal abuse of women and gays is essentially an abuse of the more compassionate, the more loving, the weaker. Shame that it has become so assoicated with a religion which originally sought to destroy masculinity, pride, anger and violence, to seek the favour of the feminine, compassionate, loving, Divine.