The use of “Father” as a synonym for God by Christ has often been used as an excuse for the misogyny that many dogmatic Christian groups have gravitated towards, ignoring the many allusions to Divinity as feminine or transcending gender throughout the Bible and the rest of the world’s traditions. This sad legacy sometimes makes it hard for some to celebrate the beauty and wonder of the idea of a Father God, who is at once also Mother God, and the root of each of our own spirits. Our attachment to hierarchical dogmas of our own making, ignoring, and shutting down the heartfelt opinions of others because we deem our own opinion paramount especially with important matters, is quite the opposite of what it means to be a patient, heartfelt father (or mother), as our need for control (or else) has within it a tendency to destroy the life around and within us.