"Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Whar did your Christ come from?" Rolling thunder couldn't have stilled that crowd, as did those deep, wonderful tones, as she stood there with outstretched arms and eyes of fire. Raising her voice still louder, she repeated, "Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!"

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

No he leído que nunca ningún hombre le diera a Cristo ni siquiera una moneda; pero le siguieron mujeres, y dieron de lo que tenían. Fue una mujer quien lavó sus pies con lágrimas, y una mujer la que ungió su cuerpo para la sepultura. Fueron mujeres quienes lloraron cuando Él iba a la cruz, y mujeres las que le siguieron desde la cruz, y se sentaron al lado de su sepulcro cuando fue enterrado.292 Fueron mujeres quienes estuvieron primero con Él en la mañana de su resurrección, y mujeres las que llevaron por primera vez la noticia a sus discípulos de que había resucitado de la muerte.293 Las mujeres, por lo tanto, son muy favorecidas, y en estas cosas se muestra que son copartícipes con nosotros en la gracia de vida”.

La única religión aceptable para el hombre es la que le enseñará ante todo, a conocer, amar y servir apasionadamente al Universo del cual es el elemento más importante.

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin — because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

La fe cristiana nació de la fe de que Jesús no permaneció muerto, sino que Dios le resucitó y que esta resurrección era un hecho; pero esto no suponía una mera inmortalidad del alma al modo filosófico. (Véase Harnack, Dogmengeschichte. Prolegómeno, V, 4.) Para los primeros Padres de la Iglesia mismos, la inmortalidad del alma no era algo natural; bastaba para su demostración, como dice Nemesio, la enseñanza de las Divinas Escrituras, y era, según Lactancio, un don –y, como tal, gratuito– de Dios. Pero sobre esto más adelante. Brotó, decíamos, el cristianismo de una confluencia de los dos grandes procesos espirituales, judaico y helénico, cada uno de los cuales había llegado por su parte, si no a la definición precisa, al preciso anhelo de otra vida. No fue entre los judíos ni general ni clara la fe en otra vida; pero a ella les llevó la fe en un Dios personal y vivo, cuya formación es toda su historia espiritual.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

The human mother can suckle the child with her milk. But our beloved Mother Jesus can feed us with himself. This is what he does when he tenderly and graciously offers us the blessed sacrament, which is the precious food of true life. In mercy and grace he sustains us with all the sweet sacraments. This is what he meant when he said that he was the one that holy church preaches and teaches us. In other words, Christ the Mother is entwined with the wholeness of life which includes all the sacraments, all the virtues, all the virtues of the word-made-flesh, all the goodness that holy church ordains for our benefit. The human mother can tenderly lay the child on her breast, but our tender Mother Jesus can lead us directly into his own tender breast through his sweet broken-open side. Here, he reveals a glimpse of the godhead and some of the joys of paradise with the implicit promise of eternal bliss.

The Midwife talked to herself now, rather than God, as she walked the road past the Big Bog, wondering if a child born female could truly live her whole life as a male. And if this were possible and offended no god, then perhaps the world had no order other than what was arbitrarily imposed by humans.

rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands

In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact as if it were common knowledge: the traditional design of most patriarchal buildings of worship imitates the female body. Thus, there is an outer and inner entrance, labia majora and labia minora; a central vaginal aisle toward the altar; two curved ovarian structures on either side; and then in the sacred center, the altar or womb, where the miracle takes place - where males gives birth.
Though this comparison was new to to me, it struck home like a rock down a well. Of course, I thought. The central ceremony of patriarchal religions is one in which men take over the yoni-power of creation by giving birth symbolically. No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin - because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life. No wonder the male priesthood tries to keep women away from the altar, just as women are kept away from control of our own powers of reproduction. Symbolic or real, it's all devoted to controlling the power that resides in the female body.

Entonces triunfará María, Madre de Dios (a la que Nostradamus indica como una curiosa perífrasis, siendo «maría» el plural del nombre latino «mare»), de la cual se ha dicho que «las puertas del Infierno no prevalecerán contra ella».

Christianity is the mother of science.