{"id":2436,"date":"2010-10-24T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T21:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2010-10-24T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T21:07:48","slug":"zelophehad%e2%80%99s-daughters-why-i-do-want-to-believe-in-heavenly-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/10\/24\/zelophehad%e2%80%99s-daughters-why-i-do-want-to-believe-in-heavenly-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelophehad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Daughters | Why I Do Want to Believe in Heavenly Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find the Proclamation on the Family both heartening in its acknowledgment of heavenly parents, but also discouraging in its comment that we worshiped God as our Eternal Father\u00e2\u20ac\u201dleaving Heavenly Mother, once again, invisible. It reminds me of Orson Pratt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s view that we should not worship Heavenly Mother, because the Father is the head of his divine household, and the concerns people inevitably raise about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153goddess worship,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as if it were inherently problematic in a way that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153god worship\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is not. Why would it be dangerous to worship a female divine figure, but praiseworthy to worship a male one?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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