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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 03/19/2011 : 07:36:51
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Rush’s feminazis are gonna love this.
God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible -- Almost
God's wife, Asherah, was a powerful fertility goddess, according to a theologian.
By Jennifer Viegas
THE GIST
God, also known as Yahweh, had a wife named Asherah, according to a British theologian.
Amulets, figurines, inscriptions and ancient texts, including the Bible, reveal Asherah's once prominent standing.
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar.
In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshiped both Yahweh and Asherah. The theory has gained new prominence due to the research of Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who began her work at Oxford and is now a senior lecturer in the department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. |
So God had a wife, did he? What with all of the angels, demons, cherubims, devils, unicorns, giants and stolen produce, added to various mojos, jujus, jim-jams, ouijas, flim-flams, turkey-shoots, voo-doos, psychics, Republicans and St. John the Conqueroo, you’d think he’d had quite enough on his plate, and be far too busy to cheat on the lady with the chippy Mary. I’ll bet he caught the dickens when he finally came shambling home reeking of other woman, cigarette smoke and cheap plonk.
No wonder he’s held in such ill repute.
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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God's wife....
