Jots and Tittles

So, I didn't get the second book for this class until this morning, meaning I didn't get to do a very thorough job on the day's reading.  But there's one thing that I've noticed repeated again and again in these readings, and it drives me nuts.  It's the assumption that, just because early cultures (early meaning, like, paleolithic) worshipped goddesses, we should too.  Because obviously we haven't learned anything in the thousands of years since goddesses were worshipped en masse.  Obviously the paleolithic people were much more intelligent than we are, even though we have thousands of years of human experience from which we can learn and draw conclusions.  ...wait.  How does that follow? I thought that conservatives were supposed to be the ones who clung to tradition and the way things used to be.  Why are these ultra-liberal feminist theologians clinging to the traditions of old people when they lambaste us for doing the same thing?

And then there's the images of goddesses.  I'm sorry, but some lazy obese woman (yes, yes, it's supposed to emphasize fertility or pregnancy, whatever, you don't have to be too huge to move to be pregnant) is not powerful or worthy of worship.  LAME SAUCE.

But I should head into class now.  More when I get home.