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| "Most astonishing of all was the discovery of numerous accounts of the female Creators of all existence, divinities who were credited with bringing forth not only the first people but the entire earth and the heavens above. There were records of such Goddesses in Summer, Babylon, Egypt, Africa, Australia and China." --Merlin Stone in When God Was a Woman |
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| "Jesus chalenged the social convensions of his day: He addressed women as equals, gave honor and recognition to children, championed the poor and the outcasts, ate and mingled with people across all class and gender lines, and with bold rhetoric attacked the social bonds that held together the patriarchal family." .......... "During the first and second centuries, when Christian congregations met in homes, women were prominent as leaders." --Karen Jo Torjesen in When Women Were Priests |
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