A weird faith called Filianism

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It’s a new religious movement, advertising itself as a “feminine monotheism”. It looks a lot like Catholicism, only in an all-feminine setting. So instead of the Father and the Son, they have the Mother and the Daughter. I didn’t know plagiarism is a thing in religion! It also borrows a lot of themes from astrology, the seven planets are interpreted as demigods. But I like their concept of universe as a harmony, or “golden order”.

“Golden Order of the Universe is not other than the Music of the Spheres – the Unheard music from which all audible harmony proceeds.” Is there an equivalent in Catholic or Thomistic philosophy?

Judge for yourselves:

 
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“Where God builds a church Devil makes chapel.”

I smell that here.

Stay away.
 
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God the Mother, Creatrix of the Earth and of the Heavens was rejected by Judaeo-Christian theology, but she returned as the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Well, as a Catholic, it hurts me to see that they use the Name of the Mother of God in vain, and how they describe her with words that Our Lady, in her humility, would never want. May the Lord God have mercy on them!
 
I was under the impression that the Jewish religion also refers to God as a He or is this incorrect?
 
It looks to me like a cross between hinduism, and new-age, even though they state that they are not influenced by new-age beliefs. Perhaps it is some form of a feminism thing as they seem to have collected all references to female deities (or important female figures) from all the religions and chose to worship them.

This reminds of something that I saw recently on Dr Phil about a women who calls herself “God” and literally tells believers that she is Jesus incarnate. The followers refer to her as “mum”. I had the impression that it seemed like people may be more attracted to these types of groups due to Covd, and the uncertainty and anxiety that some people seem to have with it?

I think it’s possible to honour the feminine, without worshipping it.
 
Multiple arms. Hindu goddess.
Menion of demigods.

This doesn’t sound like anything new. Just another form of paganism.
 
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I was under the impression that the Jewish religion also refers to God as a He or is this incorrect?
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There’s a technical term for ascribing human characteristics to God, it’s “idolatry.”

Hebrew is a gendered language and in that sense God is ‘male’, similarly God may act, at times, in a manner that, traditionally, would have gendered implications, acting in a ‘kingly’ way, perhaps.

What you can’t do is to deduce physicality/human characteristics from that any more than you can deduce from the fact that, in Italian, a car is “una macchina” that cars are, physically, female.
 
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My wife told me, about a year ago, that these two young adults came to our house while I was at work. They were trying to promote a newer religion that believed God was feminine. They only referred to Him as her and she. She said it was really weird sounding. They claimed to be Christian though, I believe. Sounds a lot like this.
 
239. By calling God “Father”, the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God’s parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood,62 which emphasizes God’s immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. The language of faith thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood. We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard:63 no one is father as God is Father.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
 
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My guess is that perhaps these religions are created by women who have had some negative experiences with what they perceive as “the patriarchy”.
 
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