Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
Carol P. ChristThe women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
Carol P. ChristTheologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.
Carol P. ChristSymbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.
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