~ God canvassing for elections with all/mostly male supporters --is the idea that struck me while reading The Phenomenon of Prophecies. The conduct of leaders under constant speculation, the tug of power to institutionalise God as 'people of the Lord' and the nations conflict over the issue; sounds absurd to me! Looks as if people of those times had no inner voice to choose or distinguish on their own!! One followed and was expected to do so of whatever the 'power' said. The question of righteousness was not to be decided by the public. The following drew my attention:
"The canonical prophets had raised expectations of righteousness in their community and of fulfillment of the Lord's way in history that could not be realized in proximate and penultimate conditions and times." [Page 170*]
~ The second idea that came in my mind was God as the greatest example of patriarchal figure in the history of mankind. The story has a male God and mostly male servants/prophets!! Complete lack of women Gods (Goddesses). Why the gift of prophecy only to men? Women are subject to 'visions' but never chosen by God to deliver 'the vision' to others. Did God think women were incapable of influencing? Or is that a sexist attitude!!
