{"id":391,"date":"2005-03-11T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2005-03-11T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T01:12:00","slug":"391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol Christ bounced by Catholic college<\/strong><\/p>\n

Santa Sabina college says that having the well-known Goddess thealogian on their campus would be “inappropriate”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Online Catholics reports today that Dr Christ is associated with the so-called \u00b4Goddess\u00b4 spirituality, which is characterised by opponents as pre-Christian or pagan.<\/em><\/p>\n

They didn’t know that? Why did they invite her? (In case you wondered, most people pronounce her surname “krist.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carol Christ bounced by Catholic college Santa Sabina college says that having the well-known Goddess thealogian on their campus would be “inappropriate”. Online Catholics reports today that Dr Christ is associated with the so-called \u00b4Goddess\u00b4 spirituality, which is characterised by opponents as pre-Christian or pagan. They didn’t know that? Why did they invite her? 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First, create a \"straw man\" argument that lets you be the\u00a0 heroic rebel: [T]he \u201cparty line\u201d in the fields of Religious Studies and Archaeology\u2014even among feminists\u2014is that there never were any matriarchies and that\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3098#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":563,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=563","url_meta":{"origin":391,"position":2},"title":"The White GoddessLee Gilmore writes\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The White GoddessLee Gilmore writes of synchronistic experiences involving Robert Graves' \"historical grammar of poetic myth,\" The White Goddess.First published in 1948, it was for many people a \"gateway book\" to Goddess religion--it certainly was that for me. 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