Keep in mind that secular feminism can be religious as well, Louis Frankel in an

article that appeared in the humanist magazine Free Inquiry, suggests that women
worship goddess a female god. Goddess religion celebrates the body, Miss
Frankel says, including its sexual and reproductive functions. Rituals celebrate
menstruation, birth, and the joy of sexuality. Miss Frankel contends that the
values of Goddess religion are largely humanistic. 1 The move to goddess religion,
however, is merely a halfway house to full Humanist theology atheism. Says
Frankel, If we need the Goddess to break the shackles of the patriarchal God, then
once we are, we can thank her for her assistance and forge our own path toward
freedom and independence.2 Freedom and independence mean freedom from
belief in God or Goddesses, i.e., atheism. 3

Feminist Spirituality as a Path to Humanism, Fall 1990, 31.

Ibid., 35
3
David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: The Religious Worldviews of Our Day and the Search for Truth (Eugene,
OR: Harvest House, 1991), 437.
2