> exodus 34:13 > break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their asherah poles. who is asherah and why did moses command the israelites to stop worshipping her? asherah, as mentioned, is another name for this goddess. here you can see the archeological evidence that - at one point in human history - the mainstream idea was that the unitary god of all things had a wife. and she was asherah. the reason moses told the israelites to stop the worship of asherah was so that they would direct all of their piety toward their one true god, rather than sullying their worship with a feminine figure. this mean you can conceptualize of jews as a sort of an ancient patriarchy cult. you can conceptualize of elites such as anderson cooper(ex-cia) as an ancient matriarchy cult.
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