RE: My naive questions
November 15, 2014 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2014 at 8:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 15, 2014 at 4:57 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I don't see your objection rhythm. Are you saying it shouldn't be so because it is too reflective of human traits? That's the distinct leaning of the text, which after all is at best an attempt to explain something in a meaningful way to it's audience. Different beings would no doubt explain it according to their own nature.Other than objecting to your absurd gender designations of non-specific human traits? What someone feels that a god description should or shouldn't be is someone else's business. The text also speaks of "god the father" as giving birth to a nation (we needn't look to the holy spirit to see god framed in such a way as to make our minds, today, spring to the fairer sex). That this means a particular thing -to us- that it takes on a specific gender implication is less meaningful to me than it appears to be to you - and yes, it's too convenient by far. More tenable to me is that the storyteller was attempting to express something with a comment ready made - just like they do today. When I say, about my car- "Shes a grand old girl"...I'm not actually trying to convince you that my car has a vagina.......frankly, I would be baffled if you took this phrase that way.
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