conceptions of masculinity to the dominate and determining place in their life philosophy. In order to deny feminity a man will exaggerate masculinity well beyond its proper proportion in human life. Of course strength, courage, determination, etc., are valuable qualities at the right time and place and to the right degree but throughout history they have been given priority and an importance that for most of human history they did not deserve.

To primitive man in his cave or mud hut life was very harsh, relatively short and continuously dangerous. In these conditions survival was dependent both for the individual and the race on just these qualities we call masculine. They served their purpose thousands of years ago but for the last 3-5,000 years they have been an increasing burden to the human race. This has been obvious to all great religious teachers, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad, Confucious, and Lao-Tse to name just a few. The teachings of all such men when analyzed by current western standards were feminine. "The Golden Rule," "Love Thy Enemy," "Walk the Second Mile," "Turn the Other Cheek," "Be Thy Brother's Keeper," and many many more which we all know, do not square with a masculine-type society. I am sorry that I am not familiar enough with the literature of other religions to quote equally well from them but scholars know that the same philosophy runs through them all. It has to as it is obviously the only ultimate way that human beings can live in closer and closer proximity to each other on an ever more crowded earth.

But while mankind's great teachers were propounding great truths and man (males) gave them lip service in church and sometimes elsewhere the business of the world did not apply them very strongly. An eye for an eye was the rule of the Old Testament and the Lord of the Old Testament was a God of Wrath, and Vengeance. a real masculine type God if you will. The God of the New Testament became a God of love, of care and of concern. Mankind had made some progress in his theory and philosophy

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