@JLeslie I tried to look up the documentary you recommended but couldn’t find it to watch.
It’s true though many women don’t know what to think. Or are so used to giving into the people and pressure around them they can no longer hear themselves. Education helps with that a little. Luckily we live in a place where women can improve their mind.
@zenvelo You are so right something happened to the goddesses. Once Christainity and Muslims etc established themselves as a dominating religion we became dominated. No doubt matriarchy wasn’t the answer but neither is patriarchy.
@Bill1939 I don’t see the surname as an essential aspect to lineage. We have ancestor trees. More important we have memories of a favorite or least favorite aunts and uncles and grandparents. What is a name beyond a name. What is more tell is the memories and real relationships. I carry my father’s surname. However I have no relationship with him and only one family member from his side I choose to have any contact with. On the other hand I have relationships with other members of my extended family. Though not many. I am a believer that you pick your own family. My generation and the generations to come are embracing that concept more readily these days. Who needs the stuffy obligatory family gatherings where you fight to stay civil on an extra holiday day off work after you put so much effort into it. Give that day to someone who really knows and appreciates you.
And Trinitarianism… well zenvelo is correct. But never mind that. The father the son and the holy ghost… What sex is the holy ghost exactly? If I remember the bible correctly God said “I Am what I Am” in reference to gender to what he was. Meaning god is incorporeal and incomprehensible, gender is implied as an allegorical aspect. This is further confused that the Hebrew language as with the Romance languages there are male and female words mon ami ma amie etc, god is male word.
Here are some allegorical aspects that portray God as a female deity.
God is usually characterised as male in Biblical sources, with female analogy in Genesis 1:26–27,[5][6] Psalm 123:2–3, and Luke 15:8–10; a mother in Hosea 11:3–4, Deuteronomy 32:18, Isaiah 66:13, Isaiah 49:15, Isaiah 42:14, Psalm 131:2; a mother eagle in Deuteronomy 32:11–12; and a mother hen in Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34.
Genesis 1:26–27 says that the elohim were male and female,[6] and humans were made in their image.[7]