Comments on: Why I Don’t Want to Believe in Heavenly Mother

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:18:57 +0000

I realize this post is long dead, but I really find fault in some of TomGuerro’s and others’ logic. We know God’s works and worlds and creations and posterity are endless. So while, after our final judgement, there may not be a 100 men to 100 women ratio (1:1), I’m sure God’s got a bunch more sons or daughters on the way. Or maybe he can ship a few in from other worlds. And I really don’t think it’s going to be a matter of “if I don’t make my husband marry my best friend she won’t get exaltation” kind of deal–how much would that suck for the best friend? To feel like the last, unwanted cookie on the table? I really think that God has more in store for singles than that.

As far as whether there is or isn’t a HM, if there’s not, where does that leave us women? How can we aspire to be like God if that isn’t possible? Anyway, I agree with your questions and statements. Great post.

By: My Articles of Faith « The Exponent

My Articles of Faith « The Exponent — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:52:51 +0000

[...] awkward about using words like Goddess or insisting in a Heavenly Mother. At times, I’ve even doubted her existence. But now I really believe that it’s not so much that the Divine Feminine doesn’t exist, [...]

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:01:58 +0000

Lynnette: You pose a pretty tough question, and I admire your honesty.

TomGeuro: with all due respect (very little) – shut the —- up. The last thing any of us needs is the finger-wagging, issue-polarizing, and pointed questions you’ve shat out in your frivolous posts.

By: Lynnette

Lynnette — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:18:27 +0000

Thanks, Bridget! I’m glad you like the post. I still have the objections I raised here but my thinking about the subject has gotten a bit more complicated in the past year; I should maybe re-visit it at some point.

jddaughter, your image of HM made me laugh.

By: Bridget Jack Meyers

Bridget Jack Meyers — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:24:39 +0000

I ran across this post due to a recent link from fMh and saw it because it’d been resurrected by the comment above, but I just wanted to say, great post. I’m not LDS but I sort of abandoned my search for a distinct divine feminine years ago for some of the reasons you mention.

If there is a distinct divine feminine, I’d like to think that she’s capable of making her identity known to the world and isn’t simply a submissive, hidden, absorbed part of a divine masculine. At this point I don’t see much hope for that. Either the divine masculine isn’t all that masculine and somehow relates to both genders, or women really are supposed to eternally play a supporting role. I know which one I would rather believe.

By: jddaughter

jddaughter — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:35:05 +0000

I always imagined Heavenly Mother kicking a** my whole young life…like a superheroine, defeating enemies in the war in heaven. I only really started getting horrified when people started talking about her like a passive bimbo. Heck NO!

By: Zelophehad’s Daughters | Can Women Be Exalted?

Zelophehad’s Daughters | Can Women Be Exalted? — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:00:30 +0000

[...] of the questions which came up in my post last fall about my reservations concerning the doctrine of Heavenly Mother was that of female exaltation more generally. It’s an issue that’s been at the back of [...]

By: The Future of Heavenly Mother « Faith Promoting Rumor

The Future of Heavenly Mother « Faith Promoting Rumor — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:35:27 +0000

[...] Like a dutiful child, not only did she not speak, but she didn’t even speak when spoken to! Lynette at ZD has a very clear critique of this version of [...]

By: Sophia

Sophia — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:05:47 +0000

Lynnette, I just want to thank you for that post – it brought a lot of things into focus for me.

I just finished reading a couple different posts, so i hope I’m relying to the correct comments!

I think that the reason we have so little revelation about Heavenly Mother is (at least) two fold, and related. First, our leaders are men, and as such, tend to think more about our Heavenly Father, and receive more information about him, and second, that the revelations of women are not counted as highly as that of men. I know, I know, got to keep up the hierarchy, or all the world would crumble into chaos, it wouldn’t do for more than HALF of the humans on this earth to be capable of receiving revelation from God that has any bearing on anyone other than their immediate relations.

By: Lynnette

Lynnette — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:50:52 +0000

Thanks for your perspective, Lena. I think my own concern isn’t so much about not having a relationship with her here (for some reason that’s never really bothered me much personally, though I can certainly appreciate why people might find the situation difficult), but with the theological implications of her absence–specifically, what that absence might suggest about the role of women in the eternities.