Religious Freedom and Religious Sentiment

RALI advocates an international alliance to promote global recognition of the Goddess. RALI seeks to unite with the diverse groups active in this field. RALI calls this religion, The Church of the Reborn.

New myth for the 21st Century, Reborn Athena joins the many and diverse presentations and revelations of the Great Goddess. The traditions of the Goddess are far too frequently suppressed and fractured. RALI builds the international institution of the Goddess, intentionally enshrining the many inspired, creative, seeking, courageous, defiant, persistent, erudite, and passionate sisters and fore-mothers, including Jane Ellen Harrison, Marija Gimbutas, Riane Eisler, Carol P. Christ, Glenys D. Livingstone and her PaGaian Cosmological wisdom, the women priestesses of ndoep in Dakar, the Millionth Circle movement, and more.

PLEASE submit your complaints about the violation of your rights as a Goddess-centered woman via the comment section below.

PLATFORM FOR ACTION:

• Misogyny injures our religious sentiment.

• Misogyny deforms men just as much as it subjects women to oppression and violence.

• Any religion marked by patriarchal subjugation of women is a religion that deforms the sacred.

• Religious preaching of female subjugation is a direct assault on the religious liberty of all women.

All conservative strains of world religions — whether a variation of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism or Islam– prioritize the rights of boys and men over the rights of girls and women. We call this preference for advancing the rights of males over the rights of females “patriarchy”.

The religious dogma, textual interpretations, and organizations that advance patriarchy wield immense power in many (if not all) societies. The religious cultures of patriarchy inform constitutional and statutory law, so that the legal cultures around the globe exhibit the patriarchy that is rooted in and re-enforced by conservative religions.

There is a direct conflict between equality under the law and patriarchal religion. Thus, advocacy of religious rights over and above all other concerns leads inevitably to cultures and laws that seek the further subordination of women and girls.

Direct conflict between religious freedom with the rights of women and girls arises when religious authorities and doctrine advocate for women’s inferior status and subordination.

Many governments enforce conformity with religious doctrine that is gender discriminatory.

International organizations as well as domestic governments must amend their view of religious liberty and rights so that women and girls can obtain their full human rights.

Preaching misogyny in religious contexts constitutes an infringement of women and girls’ personal liberties as well as infringement of their freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.

We envision legal actions to advance the religious freedom of women and girls everywhere. (For the legal minds reading this: here is one example of a lawyerly explanation of the powerful implications of establishing feminism as a religion).