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"There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world."
-- Joseph Campbell



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Poster: Liana G
Caption: Mr. Campbell's comment is an interesting one, in light of recent media attention directed toward women around the world who are oppressed, not celebrated, by traditional religious values. Karen Armstrong wrote in A Short History of Myth that “the maternal, nurturing earth became the Mother Goddess” during the Neolithic Period. Women have a powerful place in ancient myths. By symbolizing the fertility of the earth, they essentially represented life itself to the ancient farmers: “It is the female goddess,” Armstrong wrote, “who wanders through the world on a quest, who struggles with death, and brings nourishment to the human race.”

Poster: Lee
Caption: Mankind has never been able to create life conscious awareness from matter and never will because life conscious awareness is from God spirit something which can be demonstrated and proven with knowable TRUTH by those who KNOW that truth. Your human body looks but your spirit conscious awareness sees, your body listens but your spirit hears, your body touches but your spirit does the feeling, etc. Ask your human mind computer harware to produce a memory for your conscious awareness spirit to review. Your live human body can't even exist outside of your conscious awareness spirit, the real you.

Poster: Marci
Caption: As a pagan, what is the discussion?

Poster: Lakeland Baptist Stac
Caption: God wiped out the earth when sin came in and he sent his son (born of The Holy Spirit and Mary's human body) to save this world from sin. All people are born into sin as a result of Adam and Eve's sin and eating the forbidden fruit. If we confess we are sinners and humbly ask Jesus tocome into our hearts and help us live the christian life that is acceptable , He will. We are human and we will sin again but we only need to ask forgiveness and He is faithful and just to believe us and forgive us EACH and EVERY TIME we ask Him too. He knows our hearts.

Poster: Lakeland Baptist Church christian
Caption: Jesus Christ was born in God's image and was/is male. At the time of the flood, the world was evil and God the father flooded the world and the world was still bad so, he sent theHoly Spiritnand he came to virgin Mary and JJJJjesus was born. We serve the true triune God. (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost/Spirit)



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