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Christianity Quote by Peter Grey

“The cult of the Virgin Mary enabled the worship of the Goddess to flourish, albeit in a cauterised form. As I keep repeating in a mantra, sex is power. The Virgin was a method of turning the sexual impulse of Christians back into the Church and onto the figure of the crucified Christ. I would…” quote by Peter Grey
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““The cult of the Virgin Mary enabled the worship of the Goddess to flourish, albeit in a cauterised form. As I keep repeating in a mantra, sex is power. The Virgin was a method of turning the sexual impulse of Christians back into the Church and onto the figure of the crucified Christ. I would describe this as a particularly unsavoury form of magick. This is the use of repression and misery as a spiritual battery. This enslavement of the worshipper’s natural desires is the exact opposite of the natural and healthy lust for Babalon. With the resolutely chaste Mary in position, churches had a surrogate Goddess back in the house. Christ knows, they needed one. To sell Christianity to the fans of the God who dies and is reborn (like the crops in the fields) the Church used statues of Mary and Jesus that were rather close to those of Isis and the Child Horus. This mother/son icon propaganda was like a Pepsi taste test for the wavering pagans. They failed. It requires other women to keep women as slaves stripped of their sexual power. The BVM did that job. She was the only role model that you could fixate upon. As a Goddess she is a clitoridectomy. If you lift her skirt you can see the coarse black thread where she has been snipped and stitched. The thread is plaited from the beard of Jehovah himself. This is not a woman anymore. Look under the hem and learn.””

Peter Grey

About This Quote

The quote argues that the veneration of the Virgin Mary serves as a repressed, sanitized version of goddess worship, redirecting sexual energy into institutional religion and portraying it as a form of spiritual control.

In simple terms: Mary is used to channel sexual desire into church authority.

Key Takeaway

Recognize how religious symbols can manipulate desire.

Themes

religion gender power sexuality mythology

Mood

critical analytical

Type

theoretical critical

When to use this quote

  • church teachings
  • personal belief
  • feminist critique
  • historical analysis

Key Concepts

repression symbolism spiritual control

Questions to Reflect On

  • How does symbolism shape personal spirituality?
  • Can religious narratives be reinterpreted without losing meaning?
A Different Perspective

The claim mixes metaphor with historical speculation, lacking scholarly consensus.

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