From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to control the circumstances of her mating, to occupy and govern her own nest, or to refuse all… — 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 all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share
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
