I agree that the symbol of “god” directly correlates to who is in power, and what type of power structure it is, but does “god” have to be man or woman? For that matter, does one gender have to rule over the other? Why can’t mankind embrace it’s other half, and return to the origin, before, in the Greek mythos, the gods cut them into two, a man and a woman.

Since the advent of marriage, the scales became misbalanced, of course they would tell you that they are in-fact now balanced, but our numbers were not meant to be even. Men were stronger, and it was no longer obvious that God was a woman, or that woman should rule. Men overthrew the dominion of women, and overtime tried to cast out the idea that Women ever ruled, more or less ruled first.

These last ten thousand years have been the history of man, but we are much older than that, and we do have a history that goes back further. All the single god oriented faiths of this world fear the discovery of those ancient buried secrets, for they might empower women once more, and restore the old balance stealing away the power of men and their religion.

–Victor Wrath, The Heretic.–

As for psychologically, its great towards people on the fence or beyond the fence, but does very little for people who view themselves on the same side of the argument. People on the same side just want the guts of the information, the power, they have very few differences (other side) or insecurities (on the fence) that need to be addressed, and thus they find such qualifying statements to be trivial and useless.

See? I just did what Mabry did, in my last sentence of the previous paragraph!

This blog entry is a good complement to the other one about gun-running preacher pop and the drive-by anti-Holloween.

And it brings up something inside of me: if someone wants to think of God as a heretic in order to align themselves with him/her/it, then I have no problem with it.

But if God doesn’t require the permission of the Jerry Falwells of the world to do what he/she/it wants, then it follows (logically? illogically?) that neither do other human beings.

Ever had a teacher who tried to convince his students that “Math is fun!”? Maybe for him it was, but for me it was a drag, and I resented the teacher’s attempts to pander to my personal tastes just so that I could experience the “fun” of math. I would have rather had the boring math assignments in their pure form than some watered-down version that emphasizes a property that does not exclusively belong to a concept such as mathematics.

I mean, yes, there are some people for whom math is fun. But I think it’s sad when math needs to be sold as such in order to gain favor with other humans. And whenever people try to re-define what God is, it comes off the same way: as pathetic pandering.

In short: I wish more atheists and former religiosos would just be honest and say they’re too lazy to get up on Sundays, instead of all this high-falutin’ nonsense.