3. Seeks to Annihilate the Goddess
and the Feminine
In the Abrahamic story
of origin there is no Mother Goddess. The feminine
aspect of the world is made present through the creation of Eve out
of the male principle, here symbolized by Adam’s rib.
Adam is a lone male created by his Lone Male God. Everything
that is comes from a male body or a male presence.
Earthfolk sees this as a tortured, even psychotic notion
of masculinity—and a bizarre story of
origin.
In the Scientism Big Story there is
no dramatic story like the Garden of Eden, but there is the discipline
of emotionlessness that characterizes the
scientific method and the feeling tone of scientific laboratories and
clinical offices. The only way for a human to achieve
emotionlessness is to cut himself
off from the Other, here the feminine. Emotion
is a relationship term, one of sharing and reacting,
of back and forth, of communion and communication. In this light, the
Lone Male Adam in the Garden was emotionless
before his god created a woman for him.
The Secular Big Story
seeks to annihilate the feminine in its own dramatic
ways. In it, females are reduced to sex toys. The sexual
freedom movement within Secularism, in contrast
to its political sphere, does have an authoritative leader—Hugh
Hefner of the Playboy pleasure paradise.
At least in the Abrahamic tradition it
was granted that women were needed to make babies, manage the home,
raise
the kids, etc. At its worst they were considered
war booty and baby mills, and inevitably once the children were gone,
they
were severely marginalized, at times abused and/or murdered with
impunity.
As terrible as this is—and it is painful to even have to position
this horrible disrespect for women as being a “not the
worst scenario”—the Secular attitude towards women
is that they are
disposable.
Secular women are
sex workers
in a consumer society
where they are discarded
once they lose commercial appeal.
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