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I was most angry, however, at the fact that my educated former clergy, those enthusiastic ministers, all knew the facts but continued to push the fiction on me anyway. At first, the knowledge was devastating, as anyone who came from a 'church' perspective to an academic perspective can tell you. I learned to separate fact from folklore and fundamentalism and to see the Bible in its original historical context. Within another year I had remarried and gained a new family, and I began to take college courses in history and religion, focusing on archaeology, the Biblical 'higher criticism,' and modern theological thought. After reading this book, I went on to read other feminist theologians and Bible historians, but it didn't stop there, either. I didn't become a pagan or a goddess-worshiping rabble-rouser or even an atheist. For the first time in my life, I felt that there was an open door for me to approach a 'god' who looked like me, whose accessibility wasn't confined to the men in the congregation. I felt that cool water was rushing over me. It was a revelation to me, the idea that the Bible still contained the remnants of the goddess. So one day I picked up this book at the local used bookstore. I was a nominative, semi-engaged Christian, but for personal reasons I had become a seeker of more spirituality than churches seemed to offer. I was nearly 40, a single mom for ten years, holding a bachelors and a masters degree and yet working two jobs to make ends meet.

Php serial port communication linux ubuntu. If I had to pick one book out of the thousands I have read, it would be When God Was a Woman, by Merlin Stone.

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