The memories come to me in waves, like wine sloshing in a bathtub on a fighter jet. I try to resist but their pull goes beyond irresistible into Platonic realms of pure mathematical certainty. I let them carry me reluctantly down into the past, down into the past, down into the place where the present takes root and the future is barely a seed.
Imagine Omnipotent Wisdom and Unconditional Love ... needing a penis. Or any genitalia. Puts an entirely different spin on the Deity bit, doncha think?
You're assuming much about me and my beliefs and experience while I'm assuming nothing of yours unless you count a common need for forgiveness and reconciliation. What could happen in a world less personal linkage to assumptions about individuals and their experiences and motives? Confrontation is easy. What is not easy is innocence.
Sorry, did not mean my post to be to you personally. Just to many - of either gender - as an interesting experiment.
Did not intend it to be an assumption. However, the ferocity and quick feedback on the questioning of a male imagined deity, is intriguing.
Fierce imagination? Check. God as gender specific? Pointless. Wisdom? Monkey wrench.
Imagine Omnipotent Wisdom and Unconditional Love ... needing a penis. Or any genitalia. Puts an entirely different spin on the Deity bit, doncha think?
You're assuming much about me and my beliefs and experience while I'm assuming nothing of yours unless you count a common need for forgiveness and reconciliation. What could happen in a world less personal linkage to assumptions about individuals and their experiences and motives? Confrontation is easy. What is not easy is innocence.
Sorry, did not mean my post to be to you personally. Just to many - of either gender - as an interesting experiment.
Did not intend it to be an assumption. However, the ferocity and quick feedback on the questioning of a male imagined deity, is intriguing.
However, we will always refer to it as Male. Everything else, eye, hair, skin color and general vibe you can pick yourself.
The feminine side of God is as undervalued as women themselves.
Don't get too hung up on worldly human constructs. Personal pronouns are highly overrated...
What he said.
So easy to do when its YOUR gender constantly represented. Try to imagine "she" in everything you hear, pray or read for the next week. See what comes up.
Women who have been victims of incest, abuse, rape and sex trafficking, may have difficulty imaging a 'loving and protecting' God as male.
I challenge anyone here to consider the male god as female (since its JUST pronouns ya know) for one week. Watch what happens within your own psyche. As a WOMAN and former Catholic, it was a trip. My attitudes were deeply challenged. Men, will be particularly uncomfortable to find the gender considered most 'divine,' is not theirs. The sense that "She" cannot be on my side.
Imagine Omnipotent Wisdom and Unconditional Love ... needing a penis. Or any genitalia. Puts an entirely different spin on the Deity bit, doncha think?
You're assuming much about me and my beliefs and experience while I'm assuming nothing of yours unless you count a common need for forgiveness and reconciliation. What could happen in a world less personal linkage to assumptions about individuals and their experiences and motives? Confrontation and condemnation is easy. What is not easy is innocence.
Also I must say that though I sense your anger and am sensitive to your protests it is sort of projecting a conclusion to assume that I personally even think of 'God' in any human way whatsoever much less in terms of religion or gender.
