Breaking Up with God by Sarah Sentilles

Author:Sarah Sentilles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Mary Daly’s God37

Go back to the beginning, back to the garden, to the sleeping Adam and the rib removed, to the man who gives birth to his wife, to the serpent and the woman and the fruit of the tree, to the curse of an angry God and the punishment of painful childbirth and desire for a husband who will rule over her, to the promise of sweat and bread and returning to dust, to blaming woman for the fall of the world. Tell a different story.

It’s time to leave the Looking Glass society, where women function as mirrors that reflect men at twice their actual size. Time to go beyond God the Father. Don’t you see? If God is male, then the male is God.

Reclaim the right to name your self, your world, your God. The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves. Be a wild woman. Shift the shapes of words, of worlds. Why must God be a noun? Why not a verb? God is not A Being. God is Be-ing.

They will call you a witch, the devil’s gateway, a misbegotten male. They will call you a sinner. Lower your voices, they’ll say. Have some humility. Be patient. All in God’s time. They will ask, Who do you think you are?

And you will answer: I am not a stranger, an outsider. I am daughter. Weaver. Messenger. Courageous, Outrageous, Furious. Moon-Wise Spell-Caster. And I am journeying beyond.

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