Why God is not a girl...
August 8, 2012 at 11:54 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2012 at 11:58 pm by Ciel_Rouge.)
Hi all, there it goes: God is a man. Not just any man - he is an old man with a beard, right? But wait - why not a woman? Or a girl? Or a giant cookie monster?
Now let us consider the following: why should a supernatural, spiritual being have a gender and age at all? And if God is a guy, whom does he date? The Virgin Mary? Some kind of godesses? Himself? Or is he just impotent? I know, these may seem like childish questions but I often notice that young children tend to have rather un-biased views of the world due to the simple fact that they have not yet been forced to pretend they believe in different kinds of bullshit which their particular culture and society has to offer.
I like putting things in context so I suppose the figure of an old man is supposed to represent patriarchy. Thousands of years ago when many societies were matriarchical, the deity was "naturally" female and had a set of breasts which was equally obvious and self-explanatory to "everyone" as the male God is to today's believers.
Now what I am aiming at is this: maybe this is why the Catholic church will never allow female priests? Because that would go against the very essence of what the church is supoosed to be - another kind of authority, focused on enforcing patriarchy. Believing in any male God, be it Christianity, Islam or whatever, simply means belief in the supremacy of men... What do you think?
Now let us consider the following: why should a supernatural, spiritual being have a gender and age at all? And if God is a guy, whom does he date? The Virgin Mary? Some kind of godesses? Himself? Or is he just impotent? I know, these may seem like childish questions but I often notice that young children tend to have rather un-biased views of the world due to the simple fact that they have not yet been forced to pretend they believe in different kinds of bullshit which their particular culture and society has to offer.
I like putting things in context so I suppose the figure of an old man is supposed to represent patriarchy. Thousands of years ago when many societies were matriarchical, the deity was "naturally" female and had a set of breasts which was equally obvious and self-explanatory to "everyone" as the male God is to today's believers.
Now what I am aiming at is this: maybe this is why the Catholic church will never allow female priests? Because that would go against the very essence of what the church is supoosed to be - another kind of authority, focused on enforcing patriarchy. Believing in any male God, be it Christianity, Islam or whatever, simply means belief in the supremacy of men... What do you think?
