"Goddess worship" refers to the reverence and adoration of female deities or goddesses. It involves honoring and paying homage to these divine female figures as symbols of power, femininity, wisdom, and spiritual energy.
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I no more believe one
purports goddess worship or anything New Age as I would believe that Aslan would lead me to make an idol of a lion and worship it.
As Ruether and others have observed, whatever may be said of
the goddess worship of antiquity, or medieval witchcraft, contemporary revolutionary feminist religion has, by its own admission, created itself as a new entity.
It is easy to caricature rival understandings: liberationists insist that realists are all closet neoconservatives, and traditionalists proclaim that feminists have all started down the slippery slope that leads to
goddess worship.
It is doubtful that
the goddess worship of antiquity was such a religion.
This animus is commonly identified with all those cultural «enemies» conquered in the past; it is called nature religion,
goddess worship, paganism, witchcraft, demonism and the like, For a long time, Judaism also existed in Christian consciousness as a force in this suppressed animus.
After all these years, Death Becomes Her is still a delightful romp — a broad blend of old Hollywood diva mudslinging, morbid farce, and
goddess worship.