The Religions of the Patriarchs in the West

Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.
2 min readJan 20, 2019

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Queries from someone who has studied and achieved lower level baptism in all three: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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The story of Adam and Eve in the patriarchal religious triad of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is no more sophisticated than the child in the living room who broke the lamp while playing with another kid and successfully manages to blame the other kid in the game. Our history has been built on men blaming women for everything that goes wrong in life and exacting revenge at every turn. Are you surprised at the suffering and destruction that has ensued? But, who am I to make this claim?

Many people claim their idea of god speaks through them, but not you or me, unless we wear the appurtenances of behavior and affect that suggest we accept their idea of god. I don’t wear the appurtenances of religion in any form, because they are mind forms, not reality. I am only interested in reality. In these closing hours, minutes, days of my life, I turn my mind to the reality conditioned by the story of Adam and Eve. This story has resulted in males being conditioned to regard females as wrong-doers and sub-human in Western Patriarch Cultures on Earth. This conditioning has been through force and rape (including of males) for thousands of years until neither men nor women can see the fact that males and females are equally necessary for the human race to continue, and each has always contributed meaningfully and constructively and should be rewarded as such.

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Teresa D Hawkes, Ph.D.

We all matter! Code: ALL. A Warren Democrat. A scientist. A poet. A mother. LOVES Bader Ginsburg. Loves McCartney. Is old.Is white.Is LGBTQ.She/her/me.Is woman.