Q&A Forum - September 2013 (best of Elise)

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Spirituality is good but religion is not, for religion is of man and man uses religion to rule over others. Most translations of the Bible were influenced by a patriarchal society but there are plenty of translations available today that have gone back to the original Greek and Hebrew. It is up to each of us to live after our own conscience and it is up to each of us to search these things out to see if they be so. To blindly follow a religion just because it was taught to you as a child is foolish. Maybe, just maybe, the patriarchy has it wrong. And maybe God is not exclusively male, but is also female. And perhaps God intended woman to be in authority over man. Perhaps God is full of love, mercy, kindness and forgiveness because God is also full of the feminine. Perhaps the God that intellectually designed animals, and rainbows, and beautiful flowers is not masculine like we were taught. Spiritual revelation comes to the sincere, not to the religious.