Daly

• “women are superior to men”

  Mary Daly - patriarchy in the Church has hidden women’s superior knowledge
• ‘If God is male then male is God’ - Daly (radical feminist)

  • it is importantly to leave established practices behind and aim to reject the male-focused control that Christianity has historically had
  • in the Christian hierarchy, men have become the top of the chain - ‘the male is God’
  • you can’t replace male adjectives about God with female ones, everything requires a re-evaluation
• Daly

  • the Christian hierarchy was the main reason why women were abused
  • this came down to 3 male later games that were infused into our culture: rape, genocide, and war
  • true rejection of these patriarchal systems requires a total rejection of every existing aspect of culture as everything comes from a male-dominated sense, everything needs to be rewritten
• Christianity’s ‘Unholy Trinity’ - Daly

  1. rape - male dominance has led to thinking that it is acceptable to rape women
  2. genocide - hierarchical structures place men over women in the same way that genocide sets one group over another
  3. war - war is defended as necessary but a proton and euthanasia are rejected, violence for ‘good’ ends, there is a hypocrisy in the setup
• Daly

  “God’s plan is often a front for men’s plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil”
• Spirituality experienced through nature - Daly

  the key to women’s spirituality comes from collaboration towards reinventing society
• Should Christianity be changed or abandoned? - Abandoned (Daly)

  • women need to be in control of the change
  • God can never be understood with gender-language
  • The Church needs to be rejected, it plays a major role in the Unholy Trinity and is built on sexism and patriarchy
  • the Church has gone too far to be saved