(June 23, 2014 at 5:09 pm)Insanity Wrote: 'Him' tends to be the cultural norm when referring to the monotheistic gods. I'm all for dehumanizing imaginary tyrants but it seems a little nit picky.
Probably. I find that exploring the rationale behind assigning a masculine gender identity to such a character, coupled with capitalising the word "God", usually leads to admissions that the character and all that can be known about it comes only from a book. I like clarity in my bloodsports.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'