Perhaps rather than calling ancient goddess religions "fertility cults," we should call modern religions "sterility cults"

 

“Rather than calling the earliest [goddess] religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.' ” 

Merlin Stone, "When God Was a Woman"

Photo: Last light on the fertility organs of purple lupine, orange sneezeweed, and white cow parsnip, West Elk Mountains, Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderenss, CO, August 12, 2011