Can you please expand on this? What exactly is the connection between goddess worship and monogamy?
Perhaps I should have capitalized the word for effect, brYce.
Often when I refer to "monogamy" as idolatry, a word like
Monogomania helps make the point more clear. There is a simple way to explain the idea, and a
complete one; the former I'll do here, and for the longer, complete explanation I'll refer you to a couple of good books.
The simple proof is to note how people WON'T get too upset at things which are happening all around us in this paganized society -- even things which the Bible calls "
abomination" -- but will come UNGLUED at the mere mention of OTHER concepts, like polygyny, which God not only allows, but uses to illustrate Himself!
For example, homosexual "marriage" is now protected, and
serial monogamy (where sequences of one-night stands are glorified on stage and screen) is just ducky -- so long as the Sacred Tradition of "there can be only One" is honored. But if a man actually tries to COVER a second woman, actually take CARE of her, well...the hounds of Hell are set loose. And, I often note, ESPECIALLY by those who like to claim that the "Old Law" was "done away with" (
nailed to the cross) and who like to accuse those who follow Yeshua's commandments literally as "legalists" or "Judaizers". :shock:
I could add much more, of course, but the principle remains the same. It simply never ceases to amaze me how much hypocrisy surrounds the replacement of God's commandments with the vain traditions of men...things that Yeshua so repeatedly and pointedly condemned as exactly that. I have observed, and the Bible makes this equally clear, that the root of such deep and abiding anger is almost ALWAYS idolatry -- putting something ELSE in place of Him and His Word.
Feminism, and the related roots of false "equality", egalitarianism, and the demonization of Biblical patriarchy, all spring from forbidden "addition to" and "subtraction from" God's Word. The details are contained within mythology and history, and explain why 'the goddess' - by whatever pagan name - is also supposedly a 'jealous god'. For those details, I'd point you to two books:
Eros Made Sacred by J. Wesley Stivers:
There's a public domain version on-line --
http://familyabbeys.org/eros.htm
The pagan roots of witchcraft and feminism are the central theme of Stivers' book.
and Tom Shipley's excellent work,
Man and Woman in Biblical Law -- which doesn't make the pagan elements a central theme, but does have a masterful summary of how feminism utterly denies the Gospel:
http://www.newcovenantpatriarchy.com/im ... _Law_5.pdf
Hope that's at least a start.
Blessings,
Mark
PS> Myself and others have written on this topic as well, here on
BF. Some of those should be easy to find in the archives.
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