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The old woman and her cats, 1811 by Samuel Howitt. Women who have cats have long been associated with the concept of spinsterhood, widowhood or even witchcraft.In more recent decades, the concept of a cat lady has been associated with "romance-challenged (often career-oriented) women". [1]
1579 drawing of the Great Chain of Being from Didacus Valades , Rhetorica Christiana. The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God. The chain begins with God and descends through angels, humans, animals and plants to minerals. [1] [2] [3]
In her essay "Why Women Need the Goddess", Carol P. Christ argues the notion of there having been an ancient religion of a supreme goddess. [40] The essay was first presented in the spring of 1978 as a keynote address for the "Great Goddess Re-emerging" conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
St. John: The one who doesn’t walk in love doesn’t know God, because God is love. If you read the New Testament, you can’t miss this principle, unless you’re trying to miss it.
Cats are also depicted in Middle Eastern and ancient Egyptian artwork dating back centuries, and immortalized in miniature sculptures, incense holders, and other trinkets and art pieces. Some ...
Gender in Bible translation concerns various issues, such as the gender of God and generic antecedents in reference to people. Bruce Metzger states that the English language is so biased towards the male gender that it restricts and obscures the meaning of the original language, which was more gender-inclusive than a literal translation would convey. [1]
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Cats exceeded dogs in number as pets in the United States in 1985 for the first time, in part because the development of cat litter in the mid-20th century eliminated the unpleasantly powerful smell of cat urine. [9] A 2007 Gallup poll reported that men and women in the United States of America were equally likely to own a cat. [10]