I have been closely following this site for almost two years. I am ready to convert to the true religion -- the worship of Dea, our Mother God. I have read The Feminine Universe and recently began rereading the Holy Gospel. The Gospel is the most wonderful description of the Creation and the Tripartite Goddess. I have a problem -- I was raised Roman Catholic and deep in me there is still a belief in Jesus and in rejecting him and his teachings I will go to hell. This fear continually places raodblocks in my devotion to Dea. Is there any thing you can tell me to help me overcome this? Dea Be Praised,
Eve One question you might ask yourself is: Do you believe all Buddhists are going to hell? Or all Hindus or Taoists or Jews? It is not long since Roman Catholics taught that all Protestants were damned (and vice versa). Recently such ideas have been increasingly dropped, perhaps in a spirit of pulling together against the rising tide of godlessness. This is good, but it certainly shows the - shall we be gentle and say pragmatism? - of these anathemata. We are not saying followers of the Abrahamic religions do not worship the true God. We believe they do. But we also believe they have overlaid Her pure devotion with political expediency and patriarchal cruelty and that this goes hand in hand with depicting Her in masculine form. We believe in a God who loves Her children and would never torture them to punish them for seeing Her incorrectly. We believe that the concept of a torturer-god is very much a case of man remaking God in his image. Let us shelter beneath the Mantle of She who says: "I have turned no creature from Me" and "None shall call upon Me and be lost".