"This Second Coming is not a return of
Christ but a new arrival of female presence, once strong and powerful, but
enchained since the dawn of patriarchy. Only this arrival can liberate the
memory of Jesus from enchainment to the role of "mankind's most
illustrious scapegoat." The arrival of women means the removal of the
primordial victim, "the Other," because of whom "the Son of God
had to die." When no longer condemned to the role of "savior,"
perhaps Jesus can be recognizable as a free man. It is only female pride and
self-affirmation that can release the memory of Jesus from its destructive uses
and can free freedom to be contagious. The Second Coming, then, means that the
prophetic dimension in the symbol of the great Goddess—later reduced to the
"Mother of God"—is the key to salvation from servitude to structures
that obstruct human becoming."
~Mary Daly, from Beyond God the Father
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
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