I see things a bit differently!
Let's look at the 10 commandments...Right up at the top is "Thou shalt not have any other Gods before me." To me that reads, Jehovah needs to be #1 and it is OK to worship the other Gods...as long as any other Gods rank behind him. (This, of course, is standard "priest-talk". Your deity is #1 HAS to be "top God", or you lose followers!) The "WE" is no problem if you look at things this way. And you might find it interesting to look up the terms "Shekhenah" and "Matronit".
And have any of you ever noted how many times kings "did evil in the eyes of the Lord" (i.e. returned to worshiping the Goddess)? Works out about 50/50. In archeological digs in Israel, Asherahs (images of the Goddess) are found in every era- in spite of what the Bible says. An over-all interesting (but in some spots, slow and boring) book is Merlin Stone's "When God was a Woman". Your local library can get it for you.
And while I'm at it, let me tell you about Jezebel! She got SUCH a bad rap! She was born in the spring- on the equivalent of Easter. Her name meant "The Lord (Baal) is risen!" Her parents were a priest/king and priestess/queen. She fell in love with a visiting Jewish prince and married him. She was obsessed with him! He was handsome, but slightly crazy. She left her "big city" home to live with him in his "backwater" kingdom.
Things were not easy for Jezebel- the local priests demanded that she give up her Goddess based religion- she refused and made enemies; she was basically alone in a foreign country; and to top it off, her husband's behavior was erratic. He decided to "turn his face to the wall" (die of starvation) when he couldn't buy a certain vinyard! Jezebel wasn't about to let that happen, she loved him, so she "arranged things". The vinyard owner died and hubby got his vinyard.
As queen, Jezebel would take time from her day whenever a funeral procession would go by and walk a ways with the mourners. People would clap as part of the mourning ritual. Jezebel, the queen, walked and clapped with every one of them. This is why when she was murdered, supposedly, only the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet were not eaten by the city's scavenger dogs (because she had mourned "good Jews" and partly redeemed herself).
She loved her husband, a bit excessively. She supported the elderly (pensioners)- who were later murdered in cold blood by the patriarchal priests during the revolution. She had her pride, too. When faced with death by a mob, she dressed herself in her finest clothes and faced them as a queen. They threw her from a window to the street below.
I've just always felt she got a bad rap! - Granny:hippy:
