Christena Cleveland: Why God is a Black Woman
A People's Theology
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God and the Indo European Father's Side
In the Judeo Christian narrative, God was always seen as a woman because women were the bearers of life. And then when the Indo Europeans came which is a very male dominated culture of God's itself and then that was passed on through the century. Yeah I mean if you look at the discrepancy between the Jesus as depicted in scripture and the way that Christianity works in the U.S., we start to see that the concept of God changes depending on who has the power.
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