Monica Rodgers > Monica's Quotes

“No daylight to separate us.

Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily despised and the readily left out. We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop. We situate ourselves right next to the disposable so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

“God would seem to be too occupied in being unable to take Her eyes off of us to spend any time raising an eyebrow in disapproval.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

“That makes for a top-heavy lot of father-power concentrated in men who derive it from a nebulous ‘father-god’, at the expense of normal human fatherhood. It reverses the order of sane traditional relationships between the generations, where any younger male would call an older man ‘father’, while in Christianity the wise old peasant must call the junior priest ‘father’. It may well also have had a disempowering effect on the normal development of mature manhood and fatherhood in ordinary men. Arguably, with so much ‘father-power’ vested in the priests as community authorities and owners of morality and spirituality, ordinary family men would be deprived of much of their own male potential to grow into emotionally adult fatherhood. Logically, the frustrated adult male must then take advantage of men’s patriarchal ‘superiority’ to indulge in immature compensatory behaviors of domestic violence on wife and children.”
― Enna Reittort, Krivda, the Godtrix against the Matrix

“Thanks to modern research on trauma, we can understand that the men of the Inquisition are deeply programmed by the religious ideology, more so even than the common folk. Visceral hatred and cold, calculating, victimization of the feminine, life, and Nature, are an outcome of, and ‘compensation’ for, their own conditioning into total subservience to their ‘holy’ mission at the price of induced self-hatred. This involves a certain form of dehumanization, also deliberately achieved especially under Jesuit training (see next section).”
― Enna Reittort, Krivda, the Godtrix against the Matrix

“Toiling every day with the mind desperately focused on the meager earnings of pay day is repetitive daily trauma. That trauma conditions the mind to internalize the now obvious conviction that life with scarce money is wretched. Life without money has become impossible for the very people whose ancestors, for millennia, had lived exactly the opposite. The enormity of this ‘conversion’ of the common folk to the money god can only be grasped in its fullness as this brutal rupture from millennia of meaningful life in Nature’s human economies. If modernity is a ‘civilization’, it is, no less than the previous eras, predicated on the violence of what generates and feeds on slavery.”
― Enna Reittort, Krivda, the Godtrix against the Matrix

“Without connection to our inner authority and creativity, we may suffer from a need to remain weak and dependent on patriarchal power, or to be unnaturally strong in the face of it, competing for power and position in the world on the terms and values of this authority, not our own.”
― Linda Hartley, Servants of the Sacred Dream: Rebirthing the Deep Feminine: Psycho-spiritual Crisis and Healing