The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries of almost unimaginable terrorism under Europe's Inquisition and the unthinkably sadistic legal murder of nearly… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as theology, or a channeled Atlantean priest as readily as a biblical prophet. — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as readily as… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
