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The Silver Goddess - Research - Chalcedon
The Silver Goddess
By Lee Duigon – bio
Category: Articles
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“I inhaled deeply the earthy scent of incense … From the basket of rosaries I took into my hand a strand of vibrantly-colored beads with a silver goddess icon in place of the traditional cross … Once gathered, we began to recite together the ‘Our Mother’ and ‘Hail Goddess’ prayers … some rang bells or sounded the Tibetan bowls.”
The above is a description of a worship service at the Ebenezer Lutheran Church, San Francisco, excerpted from an article on the church’s website (“Experiencing the Goddess Rosary” by Dalyn Cook, http://www.herchurch.org/id8.html). It comes with a picture of a “goddess rosary,” showing the stylized figurine of a nude, pot-bellied “goddess.”
Let it serve as the symbol of a neo-pagan movement that is corrupting America’s mainline Protestant churches — and spilling over into unexpected places.
A Christian Church No More?
Robert Waters used to be a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Today he works for Wells Fargo and blogs on the Internet at watersblogged.blogspot.com.
Waters left the ministry 12 years ago “for reasons of conscience.” He explained to Chalcedon:
