I don t know understand how Stone could write a book about When God Was a Woman and then later write a book on Three Thousand Years of Racism, which focuses on uncovering evidence of racism imposed by Indo-Europeans after they conquered most of the same regions discussed in When God Was a Woman, and fail to connect the probability that the Goddesses she first wrote about were originally depicted as Black women. Stone, who happens to be a White female artist and college professor, never mentioned the racial make-up of the female divinities of the world s earliest civilizations she wrote about. As a critical thinker, I know that sometimes a lie is told when the truth is declared halfway or haphazardly. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.the female deity in the Near and Middle East was revered as Goddess much as people today think of God.the original status of the Goddess was as supreme deity.the Great Goddess was regarded as immortal, changeless, omnipotent and the concept of fatherhood had not yet been introduced into religious thought. Gibson A few years ago I read a book by Merlin Stone called When God Was a Woman, in which she wrote that in the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. Gibson When God Was a Black Woman (And Why She Isn t Now) By Joseph R. 1 When God Was a Black Woman (And Why She Isn t Now) By Joseph R.
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