{"id":50156,"date":"2015-06-05T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fr_dwight_longenecker_twelve_reasons_why_you_cant_call_god_mother\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:00:43","slug":"fr_dwight_longenecker_twelve_reasons_why_you_cant_call_god_mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50156","title":{"rendered":"Fr Dwight Longenecker: Twelve Reasons Why You Can\u2019t Call God \u201cMother\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10. Referring to God as \u201cMother\u201d\u009d is part of an overall plan to eradicate any sign of patriarchy from Christianity &#8211; Depend on it. Calling God both \u201cMother\u201d\u009d and \u201cFather\u201d\u009d is only the first step. God as \u201cFather\u201d\u009d must be removed completely. There is an agenda therefore, to alter the very foundation principles and theology of Christianity so that they worship another god altogether, and you only have to read the new age feminist theologians to understand that the goddess they want to worship is nothing like \u201cOur Father in Heaven\u201d\u009d instead it is \u201cEarth Mother\u201d\u009d. In other words, calling God \u201cMother\u201d\u009d is not an alternative form of Christianity. It is not Christianity at all.<\/p>\n<p>11. To Call God \u201cMother\u201d\u009d is to worship a pagan Goddess &#8211; Why are women priests so afraid to be called \u201cpriestesses\u201d\u009d? I asked one once. She said, \u201cIt sounds too pagan.\u201d\u009d Indeed. Likewise, why are they so timid about calling the new god they worship a \u201cGoddess\u201d\u009d? Because it sounds too pagan. Don\u2019t be deceived though. It won\u2019t be long before they will embrace these terms. A new generation will not be so shy and will say, \u201cYes, you\u2019re right. I am a priestess and I worship the goddess. So what?\u201d\u009d And having accepted the goddess worshipping priestesses who will be able to say \u201cBoo!\u201d\u009d?<\/p>\n<p>12. Calling God Mother opens the door to New Age Witchcraft &#8211; Why are people so dense about this? One only has to read the new age feminist theologians themselves to discover that the religion they are sympathetic to is none other than the worship of the Nature Goddess\u201d\u201cthe God of this world\u201d\u201caka Satan. Of course \u201cenlightened\u201d\u009d people will sneer at such an accusation, but feminist theologians themselves call for the complete abolition of the Father God and the embrace of the Mother Goddess. These feminist theologians have been very influential in the Anglican church. I was there. They were all over the place in the women\u2019s ordination movement. That\u2019s where it is headed, and the reason anyone who can\u2019t see it is because they won\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/06\/twelve-reasons-why-you-cant-call-god-mother.html\">Read it all<\/a> and Part 2 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/twelve-reasons-why-you-cant-call-god-mother\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. Referring to God as \u201cMother\u201d\u009d is part of an overall plan to eradicate any sign of patriarchy from Christianity &#8211; Depend on it. Calling God both \u201cMother\u201d\u009d and \u201cFather\u201d\u009d is only the first step. God as \u201cFather\u201d\u009d must be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50156\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}