halli’s Reviews > When God Was a Woman > Status Update

The laws were so severe that they commanded the members of the Hebrew religion to murder even their own children if they did not worship Yahweh. ... "If your brother or son or daughter or wife or friend suggest serving other gods, you must kill him, your hand must be the first raised in putting him to death and all the people shall follow you" (Deut. 13:6).

no love like religious hate...

man this book is REALLY testing my history and prehistory knowledge. fuck u know about the hittites and indo europeans

"Heraclides Ponticus said of the Lycians, “From of old they have been ruled by the women.”"

how it SHOULD be. bless up

" Myths present ideas that guide perception, conditioning us to think and even perceive in a particular way ... It was quite apparent that the myths and legends ... were propagated by, a religion in which the deity was female, and revered as wise, valiant, powerful and just, provided very different images of womanhood from those which we are offered by the male-oriented religions of today."

"Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures?"

oh i think this book and i are going to get on just fine