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13. It is interesting to me that some Catholic cultures...

Sat Mar 26, 2022, 06:15 PM

Mar 2022

...are described by Historians as "la matrilinealidad social, en una sociedad con patrilinealidad legal" ( "social matrilineality, in a society with legal patrilineality" ).

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Guerrilla y sociedad en el Patía: Una relación entre clientelismo político y la insurgencia social
by Francisco U. Zuluaga

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9589047831/

Is it possible that the law and the State itself are part of the problem?

Is it possible that our own culture could learn something from such Catholic cultures?

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Having just finished "Handmaidens Tale" it got me to thinking... [View all] walkingman Feb 2022 OP

Absolutely... secondwind Feb 2022 #1

Shakers LakeArenal Feb 2022 #2

That's interesting - I'll read up on them. I've heard that a lot of native Americans walkingman Feb 2022 #6

Man created God in his image. CrispyQ Feb 2022 #3

Good point - never thought of it that way. walkingman Feb 2022 #7

There's a lot of writing on this subject ymetca Feb 2022 #4

Thank you! walkingman Feb 2022 #8

In my experience Dale in Laurel MD Feb 2022 #5

I've heard a lot of positive things about UU - aren't Wiccan just female? walkingman Feb 2022 #9

There are all-female circles/covens, Dale in Laurel MD Feb 2022 #10

I have encountered both all male and all female slightlv Feb 2022 #11

sort of a side comment but I have always found that the "Trinity" - rurallib Feb 2022 #12

It is interesting to me that some Catholic cultures... old as dirt Mar 2022 #13