《超越天父上帝》一书的作者玛丽·戴利指出,男性上帝从外部统治宇宙的宇宙模型有助于使男性对社会制度的控制合法化。
(Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions.)