“From its inception patriarchy has relied on salvation narrative to
underwrite its program of genocide, ecocide, sexual repression, child abuse,
social domination, and spiritual control. This script works beautifully for the
dominator agenda because it was deliberately written for it. How can a story about
love, forgiveness and divine benevolence endorse the perpetration of evil? This
seems impossible and against all reason, until we realize that the story is not
what it appears to be. The salvation narrative of the Bible is a story of
perpetration, conceived to support and legitimate the dominator agenda.
History shows that the religious ideals attached to salvation narrative
have consistently been used to legitimate violence, rape, genocide, and
destruction of the natural world…In the final balance the people who commit and
promote violence and murder in the expression of religious beliefs may be a
minute fraction of the faithful, but they are the ones who determine the course
of events, shape history, affect society, and threaten the biosphere…To
dissociate from the salvation narrative would be the most effective way for
peace-loving people to end their complicity in the dominator agenda.” -John Lamb Lash, Not in His Image
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