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Originally Posted by Tex
I can answer that question and I don't need to write a thesis on it: just don't teach it.
You want to go home at night and pray to Mother in Heaven on your own? Knock yourself out.
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You might wish to read the thoughtful article before you mullah it out of recognition. I haven't given the issue of a Mother in Heaven much thought, but the fact that we have such a harsh reaction to thinking about the concept is strange. Members who stray from orthodoxy are branded as heretics, when it's mostly just speculated reason, our entire theology.
We have very few theophanies in our culture where we claim direction revelation from Deity, yet we speak so dogmatically. Now heretics claiming to know the attributes of Our Mother in Heaven should not speak dogmatically either.
Despite what we claim, we have very little pure revelation. Most of what we have involves speculative reason based on existing canon. After JS, there is mostly silence.