Quotes from John Lamb Lash

The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

Who really needs to be commanded to love? Anyone who has loved anything in life, be it another person, an animal, a place in nature, a work of art—whatever—knows that love comes by its own power. It cannot and need not be commanded.

Because patriarchy uses redemptive theology to legitimate itself, all believers who embrace the redeemer complex are accessory to the master scheme of domination.

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family—a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate parents, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood.

The religion of the extraterrestrial father god ruptures humanity's empathetic bond with the earth, Sophia embodied, yet it is that same religion that have given humanity in the Western world its historical and spiritual identity.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.

The evangelical assertion of the new Word was not intended to make man fit into the world, but to verify his isolation

Christian religion defines morality by a belief system based on a master-slave relationship, and rooted in resentment of the raw beauty and power of the life force.

What kind of world results if the power to dominate and control others, inflicting enormous suffering in the process, is sanctioned by a divine being who can at the same time redeem that suffering and release the perpetrators and their victims from that world's evils?

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.