re: #128 BryanS

If only the early church adopted a female god.

Impossible to say how that might have worked out. Joan of Arc, for example, was hardly a pacifist. And veneration of Mary, although not part of official Catholic doctrine, has been widely practiced across the Catholic world for many, many centuries, yet it hasn’t had much of a tempering effect when the time for some of the more unpleasant Crusades and the Church’s adventures in South America came about. Although the latter also involved Protestants; not sure what their stance on Mary is.