In
Dworkin’s books on the “systematic oppression of women” by America’s
male-dominated culture, she argues that “everything that exists must be
destroyed” for the feminist revolution in which there is a “planetary
movement to restructure community forms and human consciousness so that people
have power over their own lives, participate fully in community, live in
dignity and freedom.”
Dworkin summarizes in her book “Woman Hating,” for example, that the “commitment to ending male dominance
as the fundamental psychological, political, and cultural reality of
earth-lived life is the fundamental revolutionary commitment.
“It is a commitment to transformation of the self and
transformation of the social reality on every level . . . The discovery is,
of course, that ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are fictions, caricatures, cultural
constructs. As models they are reductive, totalitarian, inappropriate to human
becoming. As roles they are static, demeaning to the female, dead-ended for
male and female both . . .
“I have defined heterosexuality as the ritualized behavior built
on polar role definition. Intercourse with men as we know them is increasingly
impossible. It requires an aborting of creativity and strength, a refusal of
responsibility and freedom: a bitter personal death.
“It means remaining the victim, forever annihilating all
self-respect. It means acting out the female role, incorporating the masochism,
self-hatred, and passivity which are central to it. Unambiguous conventional
heterosexual behavior is the worst betrayal of our common humanity. . . .”
******
When
actress Jane Fonda was asked in a Q & A with Ms. Magazine about the exploding number of feminists today actively
involved with Wicca and Neo-paganism, she responded:
“Of
course, if we’re told for 2,000 years God is a male, we’ll believe it. But the
sacred Goddess was worshipped for thousands of years before that!
“Some
early Christians viewed divinity as a mother/father dyad. I think that’s what
feminism is really about: reclaiming the divine balance. We need to reach beyond the false idol of an earlier
consciousness—God as male—to the true incarnation in each of us: our creative
potential.
“I’m
now reading ‘The Gospel of Thomas,’ purportedly 114 sayings of Jesus. One is:
‘When man becomes woman and woman becomes man, and there is neither man nor
woman, you will enter the kingdom of heaven.’ Some may ponder, ‘What does that
mean?’ We know what that means!”
*****
In the Ms. Magazine article, the interviewer expresses admiration of Fonda’s “painfully candid” memoir, to which Fonda, who identifies herself as a “born-again Christian,” replies, “There were interviewers assuming I’d had a ghostwriter. When they learned I wrote it, they said, ‘How could you have been so honest?’ ”
One of the many tip-offs Fonda is self-deluded and deceiving herself, is found in what she had to say about her failed attempt at taking the Bible literally when she attended Bible study with the Christian friend who introduced her to Christ:
“It was like someone drilled a hole in me,” Fonda testifies. “I could feel the reverence seeping out, my soul deflating. I thought, ‘This is not working, it’s a big mistake.’ I felt surprisingly bereft.
“All I know is that when I began to talk to people from the core of my being—admittedly, hard as it was at first, that I’m a Christian, but then defining what that means, personally, to me—I can feel a shift, hearts opening. We’re not doing that enough as a movement, so the Right co-opts those feelings, pollutes them.”
*****
In a Mother’s Day sermon, Jordan said the growing movement today to de-genderize and neutralize the deity of the godhead with “father-god” and “mother-god” stuff represents our culture’s descent into pagan darkness.
“In
the Bible, every time you see God presented as a woman, it’s a bad deal,” he
informed. “Jeremiah 44:18 says they ‘left off to burn incense to the queen of
heaven.’ You read that and you say, ‘How’d she get in there?!’
“It’s
an ancient pagan goddess and it isn’t anything brand-new or especially
compelling. In fact, the concept of God as mother is an ancient tradition in
many religions. In Hinduism, they call her Kali.”
Kali
is said to embody all fear, is defined by blackness and destruction, and feeds
on death and required blood sacrifices. The severed head she holds in idol
representations is said to hold the fate of all the living. Her garland of
skulls is meant to show the inseparableness of life and death.
*****
Any
peripheral examination of goddesses in Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Nordic
mythology, instantly shows their intrinsic connection to the demonic influence
of Satan.
A
passage from a Barnes & Noble-published educational guide on mythology,
called “Greek and Roman Myth,” says, “Ancient legend told how Isis (Egyptian
goddess whose cult spread across the Mediterranean) scoured Egypt to collect
the pieces of her brother Osiris’s body after he had been dismembered by their
evil brother Seth. Magically restored and revived, Osiris descended into the
Underworld to rule the kingdom of the dead.
“The
Greeks knew of the legend as early as the fifth century BC. They saw parallels
between the story and that of their nature goddess Demeter, who could not rest
until her daughter Persephone was rescued from the Underworld, after she was kidnapped by Hades, its god,
who wanted her for a wife.”
Hades,
regarded as king of the Underworld, is said to have had as his companion the
popular goddess Hecate, who was associated
with ghosts, black magic and crossroads.
Another
book passage tells of the goddess Night who “gave birth to many of the evils
that cloud the lives of gods and humans, including Doom, Death, Misery,
Resentment, Deceit and Strife; Strife herself went on to give birth to further
afflictions, such as Murder, Carnage, Battle and Lawlessness.”
Indeed,
Homer, the Greek epic poet credited with writing the Iliad, has in his account of creation how a goddess, taking the
form of a dove, lays a huge egg fertilized by her partner, a giant serpent. “Everything in the universe hatched
from this primal egg," Homer explains. As we all well-know, Satan appears
as a serpent to deceive Eve in the Garden of Eden.
*****
The
staging of the original Olympic Games was actually “centered on a grove once
sacred to the venerable Earth goddess Gaia that at some unknown period had
become a cult center for Zeus, chief of the Olympian deities,” says the Barnes
& Noble book.
Gaia
is the one who married her son Uranus—something considered a sacred marriage
bringing together Earth and Heavens.
“The
union between Gaia and Uranus was not viewed as improper in any way, despite
the fact that Gaia was Uranus’ mother,” reports the mythology book. “Two of
their children would also marry each other, as would two of their
grandchildren. With these marriages began a tradition that gods could break the
taboo of incest, which for humans was inviolable. . . Later Gaia, on her own or
by various lovers, bore many other children. Most of those were also monsters, but not all. For
example, one of her daughters was the lovely wood nymph Daphne.”
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