...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed la…

- Barbara G. Walker

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind fai…

- Barbara G. Walker

In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: …

- Barbara G. Walker

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

- Barbara G. Walker

The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, …

- Barbara G. Walker

Because religious training means credulity training, churches should not be surprised to find that so many of their congregations accept astrology as…

- Barbara G. Walker

From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud, to c…

- Barbara G. Walker

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

- Barbara G. Walker

Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he ne…

- Barbara G. Walker