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Being and position of woman both in the private and social life have caused some problems since the first human was created. With the inclination of solutions for these problems, lots of spiritual movements have been developed. These developed movements have concerned with subjects such as how patriarchal society developed, which fields were effected and the sexual, religious, political and economical pressure upon women. During historical development of human, religion has been the uttermost effected area among all of these. In this study, Mary Daly who is one of the most important pioneers of radical feminism which developed as one of the last feminist movements, in general, criticized patriachy and especially Christianity in a critical way, which has been considered as a blocking factor for the development of human being. According to her, religions are nothing else from the sects under the patriarchal umbrella. Feminist teology of Mary Daly saying for women in desire of wanderlusting, the only way of participating to God as an active verb is to dismiss the patriarchal evils in women inside, is an enlightening work for women defined by women. In this paper, her concept of Christian God will be focused on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Socrates was charged with not believe in the Greek gods, calling the people to believe in some unknown gods, and corrupting the morals of the young men through his constant questioning of everything. Actually, the real basis for this charge was his criticism on polytheist and anthropomorphic Olympian gods and his claim that he sometimes heard a divine voice (daimonion) as a kind of inspiration. Although in Socratic literature there are quite strong evidences for Socrates' monotheistic belief, one can also read in the same literature both the concept of God and gods. It seems there is a contradiction, but this paper instead claims the theses that Socrates believed in One and Supreme God who created this world and will charge the people in hereafter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]