Among the spiritual but not religious crowd there is a wide belief in the presence of a Goddess, demonstrating why many spiritual people cannot find a home in a major religion. In fact all of these religions including Buddhism have long and sordid histories of oppression of, not just women, but femininity in all it's forms. It could be concluded once again that these hierarchal institutions have always been the tools of men to dominate women and other groups. This creates the soul crushing choice for women to fall in line with one of these abusive dogmas or be forever banished from that pearly gated community in the sky. That women aren't marching out of churches in droves shows the continued effectiveness of this threat/incentive.
If the belief in a Goddess makes one a Pagan, then I and many of my acquaintances are modern day Pagans. I have found that few Pagans have a "creation story" nor do they feel the need to tell one. To look around the world and see all of the plants, animals, and humans, is to know why we are here. There is room for contemplation of all things but there's no need to be told a story, especially laden with untruths and half truths. But there is a story to tell, and if you listen the world is telling it over and over with each passing day. Though it may sound very familiar to you, it's radically different from those creation stories of the major religions.
In the context of the Greek Gods playing out their tawdry soap opera in the heavens, monotheism seemed like a much cleaner, simpler story to tell. But to go from many Gods who love and make love with each other, to a single masculine entity that does it all, is over-correcting in my humble opinion. Those who believe in the presence of a Goddess believe also in the presence of a God, hmmm, Mama and poppa. If men could have babies without any help at all from women, I might be prepared to believe that one great father in the sky could be responsible for everything. But understanding the birds and the bees as intimately as I do, I'm simply not satisfied with the single shooter theory of creation.
Simply put, I believe in a God and a Goddess who together create. Furthermore, I believe that we are created in the image of the creator, and this means that we are all creators. This also means that what we create can itself create and take on a world of its' own. And that our creators have creators, and their creators have creators, and so on. In this story you can apply everything you know about your family to your God family, because there really is no difference. If God (and Goddess) are in all things then what is the difference between a "God" and a "Human"? Are we not Gods that create miracles, considering the miraculous nature of nature itself?
We all have access to God consciousness, I believe this is what Jesus was trying to demonstrate so that others might follow his example. Jesus did not want an institution to exploit his name and twist his words to fill the coffers of greedy and bigoted men. Those men who sought to oppress and enslave the hearts, minds, souls, and bodies of there fellow men, did not want anyone to follow the example of Jesus, who represented great instability to the system that made them rich and powerful. So they orchestrated a convenient story in which no body would ever have to follow in his footsteps because he already did it for you. Those men of that empire and their modern equivalents are correct to fear the real Jesus, any one experiencing God consciousness could spark a rather glorious chain reaction.
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