A simple question for theists

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Again, I trust the God that I believe is real. The God that is Himself goodness and love, and who created morality through establishing Natural Law in this world.

I've observed that "God that is himself goodness and love", was used in your post.  I've also observed other theists referring to god with words such as himself, he, him, or words that would seem to associate human masculinity with god.  Now out of curiosity, have you met other practitioners of Catholicism or Christianity who think of god as a woman or some other life-form?  To what degree do religious practitioners project human-like qualities onto their deity? Does your deity assume human-like qualities in order to make it easier for humanity's theists to relate to it and accept it. 

Also, is it more accurate to use more neutral descriptors for god, and do you have any suggestions?  With that said, thanks for your thoughtful and well-written posts, CL.

"He" is gendered (in the linguistic sense) pronoun but standard use is to refer to either a person known to be male or an unknown person of either sex. It is a convention - nothing more. People that read politics into it are misguided. Most other languages (from French to Hebrew) use much more heavily gendered syntax. In French "lawnmower" is gendered feminine the color pink is masculine. I doubt very much the French are interested in purging their language of gender conventions. If someone cannot look beyond the gender conventions of English, that is his problem, not the language's.