they are three different interpretations.
1. one is focusing on the RELATIONSHIP with God
moving from PARENTAL/AUTHORITARIAN to Equalitarian where people accept equal responsibility
for enforcing and upholding laws
2. one is focusing on the MALE/FEMALE dynamic in personal relations
and how this affects greater society when these dynamics or biases are projected
3. one is focusing on CLASS politics of the ownership/management
class dominating over the working class.
The reason this ties in with male/female roles or views in society
is the MALES were valued more and worshipped as the meat gatherers
while the FEMALES were valued less as gathering crops which weren't as valuable.
Females have done a LOT more than that throughout history. In fact, since we are the bearers of children, it only makes sense that WE should be the most valued members of any society.
We're very much on the same page here.
Females being tenders of the plants, ultimately invented agriculture and pharmacology -- you have to know that this plant will cool your fever and that one will kill you. It's theorized that females also invented language -- for communicating with babies -- and the concept of reckoning time, since the most regular thing that happens to human beings is menstruation.
That's kinda valuable.
I'd say the whole political turn setting up males as dominant is mostly based on jealousy of the female mystery and her power to procreate.
Yes, the "equal and opposite" reaction to the matriarchal stage
was to flip to the patriarchal stage. And the real point of Jesus is to establish Equal Justice
to Restore truth, justice and peace in relations and not have any more false control issues projected
to abuse and oppress people. Not women, not poor, not minorities, but to treat and respect all
people equally. That is the point and purpose of humanity's progress toward spiritual and social/political maturity.
Whoa -- Jesus? Really? We're talking waaaay before Jesus here.
I think it's time for STTAB to administer that spankin'....
I'm still wondering when there was ever a "matriarchal" society which needed to be "flipped" to a patriarchal one???
Aye, "needed" indeed -- there's the rub.
Emily's thinking of physics. But Isaac Newton really didn't write the blueprint for human evolution.
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