Is Curiosity About Heavenly Mother 'Arrogant and Unproductive?'

Is Curiosity About Heavenly Mother 'Arrogant and Unproductive?'
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In 1995, in a document called the Family Proclamation, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made explicit what had long been an oft-discussed but little documented element of Latter-day Saint belief: "All human beings -- male and female -- are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents," implying both a father and a mother. Many, many people hunger for more experience of the feminine divine. I personally have sung hymns to the goddess with pagans and hymns to both a divine mother and father with Unitarian Universalists. All the branches of monotheism have vibrant feminist theology movements, despite (or perhaps because of) the frequency with which God is depicted in scripture as a father.
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