by Ray Burke

Created on: November 20, 2010

God’s only begotten daughter

In many traditions, stories, TV shows and films involving the Devil, he is usually depicted as having a plurality of children, both male and female spawn, who want to rule the world with their hell-daddy. However, God has only ever delivered unto humanity, one child – an only begotten son. Indeed, people are ridiculed when they claim to be a new son of God. The rationale whereby everyone is God’s child is invalid here. This is about being the ‘Only Begotten’ one. But what if God did not have a son? What if Mary had given birth to a daughter instead? Would the world have been different with a ‘Messiahress’?

Mother Goddesses:

Why did God bequeath to the world a son? Was this just a reflection of the times? Male heirs were seen as the traditional choice and able to perpetuate the family line? But Jesus would not have been expected to start a family, so again, why a son and not a daughter? Suppose God had decided to send his offspring to earth at an earlier time, before the rise of civilisation, when more egalitarian communities existed. A female saviour could have been born a few thousand years earlier during the reign of the Earth Goddesses with its images of Venus figurines and fertility goddesses.

If God really wanted to send a message and connect with humans who were just out of the throes of worshipping Mother Goddesses, he could have sent his only begotten daughter. But with the advent of agriculture and urbanisation, men usurped the matrilineal world order and took over. The world of man arose and women were relegated to the background in most cases. With Jesus, the son of God on Earth and with his all-male disciples, this sent a powerful message that men were in charge. Women have been catching up ever since.

Bishopesses and Popesses:

There are myths that the ascension of a black Pope would see in the end of the world. Whether this means a black-skinned man or black as in dark and evil is another matter, but what about a female Pope? It seems never in their wildest dreams did the early proponents of the black Pope myth consider a female Pope’s accession; and God-forbid if she were black. Right now, the Anglican Church is tearing itself apart just arguing on the matter of female clergy. Elements of both the Catholic and Protestant Churches are bulwarks against such ‘radical’ changes even though there is nothing in the bible which explicitly forbids a woman’s right

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