Quotes by Barbara G. Walker - Page 1

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Religion
Fear
Humanity
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When I was 35, all of a sudden I thought maybe it'd be nice to knit a sweater.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Be Nice
Sudden
Sweater
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Christianity
Judaism
Established
Religions
Patriarchal
Upheld
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Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.
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Crosses
Males
Tree
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Augustine
Original Sin
Sexism
Sin
Announced
Collective
Eve
Hence
Patriarchal
Pillar
Rabid
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Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
God
Men
Thinking
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Acceptable
Depriving
Property
Established
Churches
Equivalent
Incomes
Slaves
Wives
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Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Children
Growing Up
Religious
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Announcing
Scholar
Spiritual Life
Investigate
Richer
Sexes
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Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Acts
Committing
God Men Name
Cruel
Cultures
Religions
Earlier
Far Less
Patriarchal
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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 / Author
Religion
Biblical
Mean
Religious
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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Generous
Vicious
Wars
Cruelest
Disprove
Tends
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The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Afterlife
Pie
Sky
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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 males when preoccupied with the important business of raising her young.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Religion
Women
Rights
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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 nine million women. History doesn't say much very good about God.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
War
Europe
Religious
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...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 is no reliable information about his life or teachings. Most stories about him are as apocryphal as the story that his coffin hangs forever in mid-air "between heaven and earth," like the bodies of ancient sacred kings.
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Jesus
Kings
Real
Teaching
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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 was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . .
Barbara G. Walker / Author
Dark
Mother
Wind
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