Mother Earth and the Death Culture

The difference between Mars and Venus is that war-like Mars energy promotes conquering, competition, and death, and love-promoting Venus energy promises unification, community, and life. Why do so many people feel betrayed by religion? Why does it fall so short of our expectations for so many of us? We can try to extract the aspects of it that reflect the cultural misogyny, racism, classicism, xenophobia, and other political agendas that clouded the spirituality at the roots of organized religion. Once we make a concerted effort to sterilize old doctrines, viewing them through politically correct rose-colored glasses based on our modern conventional wisdom, what we have left looks very much like the tenants and customs of the old earth-centered religions which centered on creating balance and harmony between plants, animals, people and our planet. When we extract the patriarchal and misogynistic constructions and ideologies of monotheism, purging them of futile exercises in condemnation of our basic humanity, we are less left at odds with our nature, less at odds with one another and more compassionate to the world around us upon which we are dependent.

What is religion in the tradition of monotheism? It is the rituals and belief in purifying oneself and absolving oneself of intrinsic deficiencies and acquired sin to be accepted by God in the afterlife. It is preparing oneself for death and life ever-after. The path of the earliest earth-based religions celebrate the cycles of life, preserving the perfection, wholeness and integrity of original self, the global community and the earth. It is preparing oneself for life and living in love. The fear of death and loss of safety makes the status quo desirable, whereas the courage to embrace life and its unknowns requires people take chances and make ongoing changes. When fear is replaced by courage, doubt is replaced by faith, repression is replaced by expression, avoidance is replaced by exploration, competition is replaced by community, free will replaces blind obedience, and a knee-jerk inherited value-system locked into shame, guilt, regret and self-hatred is replaced by beliefs based on authentic experience, kindness, love and creativity thrives.

There is nothing wrong with single parent families, but there is something innately destructive to societal structures that do not honor the feminine as holy and divine, as equal with the masculine. There is something critically fatalistic and futile in a religion that excludes the Mother Creator figure, and renders the only important mother as mere vessels of God's seed, Mother Mary. Is it any wonder Father God is so pissed off and angry all the time slinging around eternal damnation like a cowboy in the Wild West shooting his pistol on the dry chaparral of immortality with no wife to keep him company. All alone and unmatched on his omnipotent mountain in his wrathful and eternal perfection.